Method and device for measuring interference signal in wireless communication system

ABSTRACT

An operating method of a first terminal in a wireless communication system may include: receiving at least one configuration information about at least one reference signal transmitted by a second terminal; selecting at least one piece of the at least one configuration information when an uplink bandwidth part of the second terminal and a downlink bandwidth part of the first terminal are different from each other; measuring cross-link interference (CU) through the reference signal based on the selected configuration information; and reporting a result of the measuring, to the base station.

TECHNICAL HELD

The disclosure relates to a wireless communication system, and moreparticularly, to a method and device for measuring cross-linkinterference between downlink and uplink.

BACKGROUND ART

In order to meet the increasing demand with respect to wireless datatraffic after the commercialization of 4^(th) generation (4G)communication systems, efforts have been made to develop improved 5^(th)generation (5G) communication systems or pre-5G communication systems.For this reason, the 5G communication system or the pre-5G communicationsystem is called a beyond 4G network communication system or a post-longterm evolution (LTE) system. In order to achieve a high data rate,consideration is given to implementing 5G communication systems inmillimeter wave (mmW) frequency bands (e.g., 60 GHz bands). In order toreduce path loss of radio waves and increase a propagation distance ofradio waves in millimeter wave frequency bands, in 5G communicationsystems, discussions are underway about technologies such asbeamforming, massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), fulldimensional MIMO (FD-MIMO), array antenna, analog beamforming, and largescale antenna. Also, in order to improve networks of systems, in 5Gcommunication systems, development of technologies such as evolved smallcell, advanced small cell, cloud radio access network (cloud RAN),ultra-dense network, device-to-device (D2D) communication, wirelessbackhaul, moving network, cooperative communication, coordinatedmulti-points (CoMP), and received-interference cancellation is underway.Furthermore, in 5G communication systems, development of an advancedcoding modulation (ACM) scheme such as hybrid frequency-shift keying(FSK) and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) modulation (FOAM) orsliding window superposition coding (SVVSC) and an enhanced networkaccess scheme such as filter-bank multi-carrier (FBMC), non-orthogonalmultiple access (NOMA), or sparse code multiple access (SCMA) isunderway.

The Internet has evolved from a human-based connection network, wherehumans create and consume information, to the Internet of things (IoT),where distributed elements such as objects exchange information witheach other to process the information. Internet of Everything (IoE)technology, which is a combination of IoT technology and big dataprocessing technology through connection with a cloud server, is alsoemerging. In order to implement the IoT, technology elements such assensing technology, wired/wireless communication and networkinfrastructure, service interface technology, and security technologyare required, and thus technology for inter-object connection, such assensor network, machine to machine (M2M) communication, or machine-typecommunication (MTC), has recently been studied. In an IoT environment,intelligent Internet technology (IT) services that collect and analyzedata generated by connected objects and create new value in human lifemay be provided. IoT may be applied to a variety of areas, such as smarthomes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars,smart grid, health care, smart home appliances and advanced medicalservices through convergence and combination between existinginformation technologies (IT) and various industrial applications.

Various attempts have been made to apply 5G communication systems to IoTnetworks. For example, technology such as sensor network, M2Mcommunication, or MTC is implemented by 5G communication technology suchas beamforming, MIMO, or array antenna. The application of a cloud RANas big data processing technology may also be considered as an exampleof convergence of 5G technology and IoT technology.

In addition, in 5G communication systems, a method of measuringcross-link interference between downlink and uplink, while consideringvarious environments such as dynamic/flexible TDD, full duplex, remoteinterference management (RIM), or the like has been studied.

DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS Technical Problem

The disclosure provides a method and device for increasing accuracy ofcross-link interference measurement in a wireless communication system.

Solution to Problem

According to an embodiment of the disclosure, there is provided a methodincluding: receiving, from a base station, configuration with areference signal and information for measuring cross-link interference;determining, based on the configuration, which of an L1 filter or an L3filter is used in the cross-link interference measurement; and measuringthe cross-link interference based on a result of the determining.

Advantageous Effects of Disclosure

According to the disclosure, when cross-link interference measurementand reporting are performed in a wireless communication system,time/frequency resource information of a reference signal or channelused in measurement of cross-link interference may be shared betweentransmitting and receiving ends to thereby increase the accuracy of themeasurement of cross-link interference.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a basic structure of a time-frequencydomain of a wireless communication system according to an embodiment ofthe disclosure.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for describing frame, subframe, and slot structuresof a wireless communication system, according to an embodiment of thedisclosure.

FIG. 3A is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a bandwidthpart (BWP) in a wireless communication system according to an embodimentof the disclosure.

FIG. 3B illustrates an NR slot structure according to an embodiment ofthe disclosure.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for describing configuration of a control resourceset for a downlink control channel in a wireless communication systemaccording to an embodiment of the disclosure.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for describing a structure of a downlink controlchannel structure in a wireless communication system according to anembodiment of the disclosure.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of frequency axis resourceallocation of a physical downlink hared channel (PDSCH) in a wirelesscommunication system according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of time domain resourceallocation of a PDSCH in a wireless communication system according to anembodiment of the disclosure.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of time domaintime domainresource allocation according to subcarrier spacings of a data channeland a control channel in a wireless communication system according to anembodiment of the disclosure,

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a case in which, when multi-slotrepetition is not configured, a plurality of PUCCH resources forHARQ-ACK transmission for a PDSCH overlap, according to an embodiment ofthe disclosure.

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a case in which PUCCH resourcesoverlap when multi-slot repetition is configured, according to anembodiment of the disclosure.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating radio protocol structures of a basestation and a terminal when performing single cell, carrier aggregation,and dual connectivity, according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating an example of various operationscenarios of an SRS according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating examples of a cross-link interferencemeasurement scenario according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating an example of switching of a referencesignal transmission band due to a switch in an uplink bandwidth part,according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating an example of a decrease in accuracyof cross-link interference measurement due to mismatch in bandwidthsbetween uplink and downlink, according to an embodiment of thedisclosure.

FIG. 16 is a diagram illustrating a cross-link interference measurementand reporting procedure according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

FIG. 17 illustrates a structure of a terminal in a wirelesscommunication system according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

FIG. 18 illustrates a structure of a base station in a wirelesscommunication system according to an embodiment of the disclosure,

MODE OF DISCLOSURE

Hereinafter, embodiments of the disclosure will be described in detailwith reference to the attached drawings.

While describing embodiments of the disclosure, descriptions oftechniques that are well known in the art and not directly related tothe disclosure are omitted. This is to clearly convey the gist of thedisclosure by omitting an unnecessary explanation.

For the same reasons, some elements are exaggerated, omitted, orschematically illustrated in drawings. Also, a size of each element doesnot entirely reflect a real size of the element. In the drawings, thesame or corresponding elements are denoted by the same referencenumerals.

The advantages and features of the disclosure and methods of achievingthem will become apparent with reference to embodiments of thedisclosure described in detail below along with the attached drawings.However, the disclosure may be embodied in many different forms andshould not be construed as being limited to the embodiments set forthherein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosurewill be thorough and complete and will fully convey the concept of thedisclosure to those skilled in the art, and the disclosure will only bedefined by the appended claims. In the specification, the same referencenumerals denote the same elements.

It will be understood that blocks in flowcharts or combinations of theflowcharts may be performed by computer program instructions. Becausethese computer program instructions may be loaded into a processor of ageneral-purpose computer, special purpose computer, or otherprogrammable data processing apparatus, the instructions, which areexecuted via the processor of the computer or other programmable dataprocessing apparatus generate means for implementing the functionsspecified in the flowchart block(s). The computer program instructionsmay be stored in a computer-executable or computer-readable memorycapable of directing a computer or another programmable data processingapparatus to implement a function in a particular manner, and thus theinstructions stored in the computer-executable or computer-readablememory may also be capable of producing manufacturing items containinginstruction units for performing the functions described in theflowchart block(s). The computer program instructions may also be loadedinto a computer or another programmable data processing apparatus, andthus, instructions for operating the computer or the other programmabledata processing apparatus by generating a computer-executed process whena series of operations are performed in the computer or the otherprogrammable data processing apparatus may provide operations forperforming the functions described in the flowchart block(s).

Also, each block of the flowchart illustrations may represent a module,segment, or portion of code, which includes one or more executableinstructions for implementing the specified logical function(s). Itshould also be noted that in some alternative implementations, thefunctions noted in the blocks may occur out of the order shown. Forexample, two blocks illustrated successively may actually be executedsubstantially concurrently, or the blocks may sometimes be performed ina reverse order according to the corresponding function.

As used herein, the term “˜unit” means a software component or hardwarecomponent such as a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) or anapplication-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), and performs a specificfunction. However, “˜unit” does not mean to be limited to software orhardware. The term “˜unit” may be configured to be in an addressablestorage medium or configured to operate one or more processors.Accordingly, for example, the term “˜unit” may refer to components suchas software components, object-oriented software components, classcomponents, and task components, and may include processes, functions,attributes, procedures, subroutines, segments of program code, drivers,firmware, micro codes, circuits, data, a database, data structures,tables, arrays, or variables. The functionality provided in componentsand “˜units” may be combined into fewer components and “˜units” orfurther separated into additional components and “˜units”. Further,components and “˜units” may be implemented to operate one or morecentral processing units (CPUs) in a device or a secure multimedia card.As used herein, the “∫unit” may include at least one processor.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the disclosure will be described in detailwith reference to the attached drawings. In the description of thedisclosure, certain detailed explanations of related art are omittedwhen it is deemed that they may unnecessarily obscure the essence of thedisclosure, The terms used herein are those defined in consideration offunctions in regard to the disclosure, but the terms may vary accordingto the intention of users or operators, precedents, etc. Thus, the termsused in the specification should be understood based on the overalldescription of the disclosure. Hereinafter, a base station is an entitythat allocates resources to a terminal and may include at least one ofan eNode B, a Node B, a base station (BS), a radio access unit, a basestation controller, or a node on a network. The terminal may include auser equipment (UE), a mobile station (MS), a terminal, a cellularphone, a smartphone, a computer, or a multimedia system capable ofperforming a communication function. However, the disclosure is notlimited to the above examples. Hereinafter, a technique for a terminalto receive broadcast information from a base station in a wirelesscommunication system will be described. The disclosure relates to acommunication method of converging a 5^(th) generation (5G)communication system for supporting a higher data rate than a 4^(th)generation (4G) system or a post-4G system with Internet of things (IoT)technology, and a system of the communication method. The disclosure maybe applied to intelligent services based on 5G communication technologyand IoT-related technology (e.g., smart home, smart budding, smart city,smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail,security, and safety-related services).

In the following description, terms used to indicate broadcastinformation, terms used to indicate control information, terms relatedto communication coverage, terms used to indicate a state change, e.g.,event, terms used to indicate network entities terms used to indicatemessages, terms used to indicate constituent elements of a device, andthe like are exemplified for convenience of explanation. Accordingly,the disclosure is not limited to the terms described below, and otherterms that refer to objects having equivalent technical meanings can beused,

Hereinafter, for convenience of description, some of terms and namesdefined by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project Long Term Evolution(3GPP LTE) standard may be used. The disclosure is not, however, limitedby the terms and definitions, and may be equally applied to any systemsthat conform to other standards.

Wireless communication systems providing voice-based services are beingdeveloped to broadband wireless communication systems providinghigh-speed and high-quality packet data services according tocommunication standards such as high speed packet access (HSPA), longterm evolution (LTE) (or evolved universal terrestrial radio access(E-UTRA)), LTE-advanced (LTE-A), and LTE-pro of 3GPP, high rate packetdata (HRPD) and ultra mobile broadband (UMB) of 3GPP2, and 802.16e ofthe Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

As a representative example of the broadband wireless communicationsystems, LTE systems employ orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM) for a downlink (DL), and employs single carrier-frequencydivision multiple access (SC-FDMA) for an uplink (UL). The uplink is aradio link through which the terminal (or user equipment (UE)) or amobile station (MS) transmits data or a control signal to the basestation (or an eNode B), and the downlink is a radio link through whichthe base station transmits data or a control signal to the terminal. Themultiple access scheme as described above normally allocates andoperates time-frequency resources for carrying data or controlinformation of different users to prevent the time-frequency resourcesfrom overlapping with each other, that is, establish orthogonalitytherebetween, thereby identifying the data or the control information ofeach user.

As a future communication system after the LTE system, that is, a 5Gcommunication system, has to be able to freely reflect variousrequirements of a user and a service provider, and thus, servicessatisfying various requirements need to be supported. Servicesconsidered for 5G communication systems include enhanced mobilebroadband (eMBB), massive machine type communication (mMTC), andultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC).

According to some embodiments, eMBB may aim to provide a higher datarate than a data rate supported by LTE, LTE-A, or LTE-Pro. For example,in the 5G communication system, eMBB is able to provide a peak data rateof 20 Gbps in a downlink and 10 Gbps in an uplink, in terms of one basestation. Simultaneously, eMBB may be able to provide an increased userperceived data rate of a UE. To satisfy the above requirements, theimprovement of transmission/receiving technology including more enhancedmulti input multi output (MIMO) transmission technology is needed. Inaddition, it is possible to satisfy the data rate required by the 5Gcommunication system by using a frequency bandwidth wider than 20 MHz ina frequency band of 3 to 6 GHz or 6 GHz or more, instead of the 2 GHzband currently used by LTE.

At the same time, the mMTC is being considered to support applicationservices such as IoT in the 5G communication system. In order for mMTCto efficiently provide the IoT, access by many terminals within a singlecell, coverage improvement of a terminal, an increased battery time, areduction in the cost of a terminal, etc. may be required. The IoTservice provides a communication function by using a variety of sensorsattached to various devices, and thus needs to support a large number ofterminals within a cell (e.g., 1,000,000 terminals/km²). In addition,because terminals supporting mMTC are likely to be located in a deadzone not covered by a cell, e.g., a basement of a building, due toservice characteristics, the mMTC service may require a wider coveragecompared to other services provided by the 5G systems. A terminalsupporting mMTC may be configured as a low-cost terminal, and as it isdifficult to frequently exchange the battery of a terminal, a very longbattery life time may be required.

Finally, the URLLC that is a cellular-based wireless communicationservice used for mission-critical purposes needs to providecommunication providing ultra-low latency and ultra-high reliability asa service used in remote control for robots or machinery, industrialautomation, unmanaged aerial vehicles, remote health care, or emergencyalert. For example, the URLLC service needs to satisfy an air interfacelatency less than 0.5 milliseconds and, at the same time, requires apacket error rate equal to or less than 10⁻⁵. Accordingly, for theservice supporting the URLLC, the 5G communication system is required toprovide a transmit time interval (TTI) shorter than those for otherservices while allocating a broad resource in a frequency band. However,the mMTC, URLLC, and eMBB are examples of different service types, andservice types to which the disclosure is applied are not limitedthereto.

The services considered in the 5G communication system described abovemay be converted with each other and provided based on one framework. Inother words, for efficient resource management and control, services maybe integrated, controlled, and transmitted via one system instead ofbeing independently operated.

Also, although embodiments of the disclosure will be described based onan LTE, LTE-A, LTE Pro, or NR system, the embodiments of the disclosuremay be applied to other communication systems having a similar technicalbackground or channel type. The embodiments of the disclosure may beapplied to other communication systems through some modificationswithout departing from the scope of the disclosure based ondetermination by one of ordinary skill in the art.

The disclosure relates to a method and device for measuring cross-linkinterference between downlink and uplink.

According to the disclosure, when cross-link interference measurementand reporting are performed in a wireless communication system, theaccuracy of cross-link interference measurement may be improvised.

A frame structure of a 5G system will now be described in more detailwith reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a basic structure of a time-frequencydomain of a mobile communication system according to an embodiment ofthe disclosure.

In FIG. 1 , the horizontal axis indicates a time domain, and thevertical axis indicates a frequency domain. A basic resource unit in thetime-frequency domain is a resource element (RE) 1-01 and may be definedby one orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol 1-02 ina time domain and one subcarrier 1-03 a frequency axis. In the frequencydomain, N_(sc) ^(RB) (e.g., 12) consecutive REs may constitute a singleresource block (RB) 1-04. In an embodiment, a plurality of OFDM symbolsmay constitute one subframe 1-10.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for describing frame, subframe, and slot structuresof a mobile communication system, according to an embodiment of thedisclosure.

In FIG. 2 , illustrated is an example of frame 2-00, subframe 2-01, andslot 2-02 structures. One frame 2-00 may be defined as 10 ms. Onesubframe 2-01 may be defined as 1 ms, and thus, one frame 2-00 mayinclude a total of 10 subframes 2-01. Also, one slot 2-02 or 2-03 may bedefined as 14 OFDM symbols (i.e., the number of symbols per slot(N_(symb) ^(slot))=14). One subframe 2-01 may include one or more slots2-02 or 2-03, and the number of slots 2-02 or 2-03 per subframe 2-01 mayvary according to a subcarrier spacing configuration value μ (2-04 and2-05). In the example of FIG. 2 , the subcarrier spacing configurationvalues are 0 and 1, i.e., μ=0 (2-04) and μ=1 (2-05). In the case of μ=0(2-04), one subframe 2-01 may include one slot 2-02, and in the case ofμ=1 (2-05), one subframe 2-01 may include two slots 2-03. That is, thenumber N_(slot) ^(subframes,μ) of slots per one subframe may varyaccording to the set value μ for the subcarrier spacing, and thus, thenumber N_(slot) ^(frame,μ) of slots per one frame may vary. N_(slot)^(subframe,μ) and N_(slot) ^(frame,μ) based on the subcarrier spacingconfiguration value p may be defined as shown in Table 1.

TABLE 1 μ N_(symb) ^(slot) N_(slot) ^(frame, μ) N_(slot) ^(subframe, μ)0 14 10 1 1 14 20 2 2 14 40 4 3 14 80 8 4 14 160 16 5 14 320 32

In an NR system, one component carrier (CC) or serving cell may becomposed of up to 250 or more RBs. Accordingly, when a terminal alwaysreceives an entire serving cell bandwidth as in the LTE system, powerconsumption of the terminal may be severe, and to solve this, a basestation may configure one or more bandwidth parts (BWPs) for theterminal to support the terminal to change a reception area in a cell.In the NR system, the base station may configure, for the terminal, an‘initial BWP’ that is a bandwidth of a CORESET #0 (or common searchspace (CSS)) via a master information block (MIB). Then, the basestation may configure the initial BWP (first BWP) of the terminal viaRRC signaling, and notify one or more pieces of BWP configurationinformation that may be indicated via downlink control information (DCI)later. Next, the base station may notify about a BWP ID via the DCI toindicate to the terminal which band to use. When the terminal does notreceive the DCI from a currently allocated BWP for a specific period oftime or longer, the terminal may return to a ‘default BWP’ and try toreceive the DCI.

FIG. 3A is a diagram illustrating an example of configuration of abandwidth part in a wireless communication system, according to anembodiment of the disclosure.

FIG. 3A is a diagram illustrating a BWP configuration in a 5Gcommunication system, according to an embodiment of the disclosure.Referring to FIG. 3A, an example is illustrated, in which a terminalbandwidth 3-00 is configured with two BWPs, i.e., a BWP #1 3-05 and aBWP #2 3-10. A base station may configure one or more BWPs for aterminal and may configure pieces of information as shown in Table 2below for each BWP.

TABLE 2 BWP : : = SEQUENCE {  bvp-Id  BVP-Id,  (bandwidth part ) ientifier  INTEGER (1..65536).  locationAndBandwidth  (bandwidth partlocat)on  subcarrierSpacing  ENUMERATED {n0, n1, n2, n3, n4, n5} , cyclicPref ix  ENUNERATED { extended } }

However, the disclosure is not limited to the above examples, and othervarious parameters related to BWP than the configuration informationdescribed in Table 2 above may be configured for the terminal. Thepieces of information described above may be transmitted by a basestation to a terminal via higher layer signaling, for example, RRCsignaling. At least one BWP from among the configured one or more BWPsmay be activated. Whether the configured BWP is to be activated may besemi-statically transmitted from the base station to the terminalthrough RRC signaling or may be dynamically transmitted through a mediumaccess control (MAC) control element (CE) or DCI.

According to an embodiment, the terminal before radio resource control(RRC) connection may be configured with an initial BWP for initialaccess through a master information block (MIB) from the base station.In detail, in order to receive system information (e.g., remainingsystem information (RMSI) or system information block 1 (SIB1)) requiredfor initial access, through a MIB in an initial access stage, theterminal may receive configuration information for a control resourceset (CORESET) and a search space, where a physical downlink controlchannel (PDCCH) may be transmitted. An identity (ID) of a CORESET and asearch space configured via the MIB may be considered as 0.

The base station may notify configuration information such as frequencyallocation information, time allocation information, and numerology fora CORESET #0 via the MIB to the terminal. Also, the base station maynotify configuration information for a monitoring period and an occasionfor the CORESET #0, that is, configuration information for a searchspace #0, via the MIB to the terminal. The terminal may consider afrequency domain configured as the CORESET #0 obtained from the MIB, asthe initial BWP for initial access. In this case, an ID of the initialBWP may be considered as 0.

A configuration of a BWP supported by the 5G communication systemsdescribed above may be used for various purposes.

For example, when a bandwidth supported by the terminal is smaller thana system bandwidth, the bandwidth supported by the terminal may besupported via the configuration of a BWP. For example, by configuring afrequency location (configuration information 2) of a BWP in Table 2 forthe terminal, the terminal may transmit/receive data at a specificfrequency location in the system bandwidth.

As another example, the base station may configure a plurality of BWPsfor the terminal for the purpose of supporting different numerologies.For example, to support data transmission/reception using bothsubcarrier spacing of 15 kHz and subcarrier spacing of 30 kHz for aterminal, two BWPs may be configured to respectively use the subcarrierspacings of 15 kHz and 30 kHz. Frequency division multiplexing (FDM) maybe performed on different BWPs, and when data is to betransmitted/received in a specific subcarrier spacing, a BWP configuredat the corresponding subcarrier spacing may be activated.

As another example, the base station may configure BWPs having differentsizes of bandwidths for the terminal for a purpose of reducing powerconsumption of the terminal. For example, when the terminal supports avery large bandwidth, for example, a bandwidth of 100 MHz, and alwaystransmits/receives data via the corresponding bandwidth, very largepower consumption may occur. In particular, in terms of powerconsumption, it is very inefficient for the terminal to monitor anunnecessary downlink control channel for a large bandwidth of 100 MHz ina situation where there is no traffic. Accordingly, the base station mayconfigure a BWP of a relatively small bandwidth, for example, a BWP of20 MHz, for the terminal for a purpose of reducing the power consumptionof the terminal. In a situation where there is no traffic, the terminalmay perform a monitoring operation in a BWP of 20 MHz, and when data isgenerated, the terminal may transmit/receive the data by using a BWP of108 MHz according to an indication by the base station.

In the above method of configuring a BWP, terminals before beingRRC-connected may receive configuration information regarding an initialbandwidth part through a master information block (MIB) in an initialaccess stage. In detail, the terminal may be configured, by an MIB of aphysical broadcast channel (PBCH), with a control resource set (CORESET)for a downlink control channel through which downlink controlinformation (DCI) for scheduling a system information block (SIB) may betransmitted. A bandwidth of a CORESET configured by an MIB may beregarded as the initial bandwidth part, and the terminal may receive aPDSCH, through which an SIB is transmitted, via the configured initialbandwidth part. The initial bandwidth part may be used for other systeminformation (OSI), paging, and random access as well as for reception ofthe SIB.

FIG. 3B illustrates a structure of an NR slot structure according to anembodiment of the disclosure.

In an NR system, various slot structures are supported in order toflexibly cope with required capacities of downlink and uplink, whichvary according to environments such as time and operation scenarios.Referring to FIG. 3B, in NR, terminals may be configured with slots ofvarious lengths, and the configuration values may include at least onevalue from among a slot structure 320 consisting of 14 (or 7) OFDMsymbols and a non-slot structure 325 consisting of 1, 2, . . . or 7 OFDMsymbols. While the non-slot structure 325 is described for convenienceof description, the non-slot structure 325 may be expressed usingvarious terms such as a mini slot and a short slot. As described above,a frequency/time resource interval unit configured as a slot or thenon-slot structure 325 may be divided, particularly from a time domainview, into a downlink structure (DL only) an up/downlink mixed structure(similar to a LTE special subframe structure), and an uplink structure(UL only). Hereinafter, description will focus on an uplink/downlinkmixed structure, which is the most general structure (DL only or UL onlymay be considered as a special case of UL/DL mixed). In the UL/DL mixedstructure, at least one of a DL part, a guard period (GP) 310, and a ULpart may be included in one slot or a non-slot structure. The DL partmay include a PDCCH 200, a PDSCH 305, and at least one DL RS elementamong CSI-RS, DL DMRS, etc. Similarly, the UL part may include a PUCCH,a PUSCH 315, and at least one UL RS element among SRS, UL DMRS, etc.Here, the guard period (GP) 310 is a guard period during a transitionfrom DL to UL, and the terminal does not need to perform datatransmission/reception during this period, and thus, may perform anoperation for UL/DL conversion, such as timing alignment or RF chainconversion.

Hereinafter, a Synchronization Signal (SS)/PBCH block of anext-generation mobile communication system (5G or NR system) will bedescribed.

The SS/PBCH block may refer to a physical layer channel block composedof a primary SS (PSS), a secondary SS (SSS), and a PBCH. In detail, theSS/PBCH block may be defined as below.

PSS: a signal serving as a reference for downlink time/frequencysynchronization; may provide some information of cell ID.

SSS: serves as a reference for downlink time/frequency synchronization;may provide information of other cell IDs that PSS did not provide. Inaddition, SSS may act as a reference signal for demodulation of a PBCH.

PBCH: may provide essential system information required for transmissionand reception of a data channel and a control channel of a terminal. Theessential system information may include search space-related controlinformation indicating radio resource mapping information of a controlchannel, scheduling control information about a separate data channelfor transmitting system information, and the like.

SS/PBCH block: a SS/PBCH block may consist of a combination of PSS, SSS,and PBCH. One or a plurality of SS/PBCH blocks may be transmitted within5 ms, and each transmitted SS/PBCH block may be distinguished by anindex.

The terminal may detect a PSS and an SSS in an initial access stage andmay decode a PBCH. The terminal may obtain MIB from a PBCH, and may beconfigured with CORESET #0 through an MIB. The terminal may performmonitoring on the control region CORESET #0 on the assumption that theselected SS/PBCH block and a demodulation reference signal (DMRS)transmitted in the CORESET #0 is quasi-co located (QCL). The terminalmay receive system information based on downlink control informationtransmitted in CORESET #0. The terminal may obtain random access channel(RACH)-related configuration information required for initial accessfrom the received system information. In consideration of a SS/PBCHindex, the terminal may transmit a physical RACH (PRACH) to the basestation, and the base station receiving the PRACH may obtain informationabout the SS/PBCH block index selected by the terminal. The base stationmay know that which of SS/PBCH blocks the terminal has selected, andthat the terminal monitors CORESET #0 corresponding to (or associatedwith) the SS/PBCH block selected by the terminal.

Hereinafter, downlink control information (hereinafter referred to asDCI) in a next-generation mobile communication system (5G or NR system)will be described in detail.

Scheduling information for uplink data (or physical uplink sharedchannel (PUSCH)) or downlink data (or physical downlink data channel(PDSCH)) in a next-generation mobile communication system (5G or NRsystem) may be transmitted from the base station to the terminal throughDCI. The terminal may monitor a fallback DCI format and a non-fallbackDCI format for a PUSCH or a PDSCH. The fallback DCI format may include afixed field predefined between the base station and the terminal, andthe non-fallback DCI format may include a configurable field.

The DCI may be channel-coded and modulated and then be transmittedthrough a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). A cyclic redundancycheck (CRC) may be attached to a payload of a DCI message and may bescrambled by a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) correspondingto an identity of the terminal. Different RNTIs may be used forscrambling of CRC attached to a payload of a DCI message, according tothe purpose of a DCI message, for example, transmission of UE-specificdata, a power control command, a random access response, and the like.In other words, the RNTI may be transmitted not explicitly but includedin a CRC calculation process and transmitted. When a DCI messagetransmitted on a PDCCH is received, the terminal may check CRC by usingan allocated RNTI. The terminal may know, based on a CRC check result,that the message has been transmitted to the terminal.

For example, DCI for scheduling a PDSCH for system information (SI) maybe scrambled by a system information RNTI (SI-RNTI). DCI for schedulinga PDSCH for a random access response (RAR) message may be scrambled by arandom access RNTI (RA-RNTI). DCI for scheduling a PDSCH for a pagingmessage may be scrambled by a paging RNTI (P-RNTI). DCI for notifying aslot format indicator (SF1) may be scrambled by an SFI-RNTI. DCI fornotifying transmit power control (TPC) may be scrambled by a TPC RNTI.DCI for scheduling a UE-specific PDSCH or PUSCH may be scrambled by acell RNTI (C-RNTI).

A DCI format 0_0 may be used as fallback DCI for scheduling a PUSCH, anda CRC in this case may be scrambled by a C-RNTI. In an embodiment, theDCI format 0_0 with the CRC scrambled by a C-RNTI may includeinformation as shown in Table 3 below.

TABLE 3 Identifier for DCI formats (DCI format identifier ) [1]bit|Frequency domain resource assignment [┌log₂(N_(RB) ^(UL,BWP)(N_(RB)^(UL,BWP) + 1)/2┐]bits Time domain resource assignment: X bits Frequencyhopping flag 1 bit Modulation and coding scheme 5 bits New dataindicator 1 bit Redundancy version 2 bits HARQ process number 4 bits TPCcommand for scheduled PUSCH [2] bits (transmit power control (TPC)command for scheduled PUSCH) UL/SUL indicator ( uplink/supplementary 0or 1 bit uplink indicator)

A DCI format 0_1 may be used as non-fallback DCI for scheduling a PUSCH,and a CRC in this case may be scrambled by a C-RNTI. In an embodiment,the DCI format 0_1 with the CRC scrambled by a C-RNTI may includeinformation as shown in Table 4 below.

TABLE 4 - Carrier indicator − 0 or 3 bits - UL/SUL indicator − 0 or 1bit - Identifier for DCI formats − [1] bits - Bandwidth part indicator −0, 1 or 2 bits - Frequency domain resource assignment  • For resourceallocation type 0 , ┌N_(RB) ^(UL,BWP)/P┐ bits  • For resource allocationtype 1 ,  ┌log₂(N_(RB) ^(UL,BWP)(N_(RB) ^(UL,BWP) + 1)/2)┐ bits - Timedomain resource assignment −1, 2, 3, or 4 bits - VRB-to-PRB mapping (virtual resource block -to- physical resource block mapping ) − 0 or 1bit, only for resource allocation type 1.  • 0 bit if only resourceallocation type 0 is configured;  • 1 bit otherwise. - Frequency hoppingflag − 0 or 1 bit, only for resource allocation type 1.  • 0 bit if onlyresource allocation type 0 is configured;  • 1 bit otherwise. -Modulation and coding scheme − 5 bits - New data indicator − 1 bit -Redundancy version − 2 bits - HARQ process number − 4 bits - 1stdownlink assignment index − 1 or 2 bits  • 1 bit for semi-staticHARQ-ACK codebook ;  • 2 bits for dynamic HARQ-ACK codebook with singleHARQ-ACK  codebook - 2nd downlink assignment index − 0 or 2 bits  • 2bits for dynamic HARQ-ACK codebook with two HARQ-ACK  sub-codebooks  • 0bit otherwise. - TPC command for scheduled PUSCH − 2 bits$‐{{{SRS}{resource}{indicator}} - {\left\lceil {\log_{2}\left( {\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{L_{\max}}\begin{pmatrix}N_{SRS} \\k\end{pmatrix}} \right)} \right\rceil{or}\left\lceil {\log_{2}\left( N_{SRS} \right)} \right\rceil{bits}}}$  $\begin{matrix}{{\left\lceil {\log_{2}\left( {\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{L_{\max}}\begin{pmatrix}N_{SRS} \\k\end{pmatrix}} \right)} \right\rceil{bits}{for}{non}}‐{{codebook}{based}{PUSCH}}} \\{{transmission};}\end{matrix}$  • ┌log₂(N_(SRS))┐ bits for codebook based PUSCHtransmission - Precoding information and number of layers −up to 6bits - Antenna ports − up to 5 bits - SRS request − 2 bits - CSI request( channel state information request ) − 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 bits -CBG transmission information ( code block group (CBG) transmissioninformation )− 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8 bits - PTRS-DMRS association ( phasetracking reference signal- demodulation reference signal association )−0 or 2 bits. - beta_offset indicator − 0 or 2 bits - DMRS sequenceinitialization ( demodulation reference signal sequence initialization)− 0 or 1 bit

A DCI format 1_0 may be used as fallback DCI for scheduling a PDSCH, anda CRC in this case may be scrambled by a C-RNT1. In an embodiment, theDCI format 1_0 with the CRC scrambled by a C-RNTI may includeinformation as shown in Table 5 below.

TABLE 5 Identifier for DCI formats—[1] bit Frequency domain resourceassignment—[┌log₂(N_(RB) ^(DL,BWP)(N_(RB) ^(DL,BWP) + 1)/2┐]bits Timedomain resource assignment—X bits VRB-to-PRB mapping—1 bit. Modulationand coding scheme—5 bits New data indicator—1 bit Redundancy version—2bits HARQ process number—4 bits Downlink assignment index—2 bits TPCcommand for scheduled PUCCH—[2] bits PUCCH resource indicator (physicaluplink conrol channel (PUCCH) resource indicator)—3 bits PDSCH-to-HARQfeedback timing indicator—[3] bits

A DCI format 1_1 may be used as non-fallback DCI for scheduling a PDSCH,and a CRC in this case may be scrambled by a C-RNTI. In an embodiment,the DCI format 1_1 with the CRC scrambled by a C-RNTI may includeinformation as shown in Table 6 below.

TABLE 6 Carrier indicator—0 or 3 bits Identifier for DCI formats—[1]bits Bandwidth part indicator—0, 1 or 2 bits Frequency domain resourceassignment For resource allocation type 0, ┌N_(RB) ^(DL,BWP)/P┐bits Forresource allocation type 1, ┌log₂(N_(RB) ^(DL,BWP)(N_(RB) ^(DL,BWP) +1)/2┐ bits Time domain resource assignment—1, 2, 3 or 4 bits VRB-to-PRBmapping—0 or 1 bit, only for resource allocation type 1. 0 bit if onlyresource allocation type 0 is configured;| 1 bit otherwise.| PRBbundling size indicator (physical resource block bundling size indicator)—0 or 1 bit Rate matching indicator—0, 1, or 2 bits ZP CSI-RS trigger(zero power channel state information reference signal trigger)—0, 1, or2 bits For transport block 1: Modulation and coding scheme—5 bits Newdata indicator—1 bit Redundancy version—2 bits For transport block 2 :Modulation and coding scheme—5 bits New data indicator—1 bit Redundancyversion—2 bits HARQ process number—4 bits Downlink assignment index—0 or2 or 4 bits TPC command for scheduled PUCCH—2 bits PUCCH resourceindicator—3 bits PDSCH-to-HARQ feedback timing indicator—3 bits Antennaports—4,5 or 6 bits Transmission configuration indication—0 or 3 bitsSRS request—2 bits CBG transmission information—0, 2, 4, 6, or 8 bitsCBG flushing out information ( code block group flushing out information)—0 or 1 bit DMRS sequence initialization—1 bit

FIG. 4 is a diagram for describing configuration of a CORESET for adownlink control channel in a wireless communication system according toan embodiment of the disclosure.

In detail, FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of a controlresource set (CORESET) in which a downlink control channel istransmitted in a 5G system, according to an embodiment of thedisclosure.

Referring to FIG. 4 , a UE bandwidth part 4-10 may be configured on afrequency axis, and two CORESETs (CORESET #1 4-01 and CORESET #2 4-02)may be configured in one slot 4-20 on a time domain. The CORESETs 4-01and 4-02 may be configured in a particular frequency resource 5-03 inthe entire UE BVVP 4-10 on the frequency axis. The CORESETs 4-01 and4-02 may be configured with one or more OFDM symbols along the timedomain, and may be defined by a control resource set duration 4-04.Referring to FIG. 4 , a duration of the CORESET #1 4-01 may beconfigured as a CORESET of two symbols, and a duration of the CORESET #24-02 may be configured as a CORESET of one symbol.

The CORESET in the 5G or NR system described above may be configuredthrough higher layer signaling between a base station and a terminal(e.g., SI, MIB, or RRC signaling). Configuring the terminal with aCORESET refers to providing the terminal with information such as aCORESET identity, a frequency position of the CORESET, a symbol durationof the CORESET, and the like. For example, configuration of a CORESETmay include information as shown in Table 7 below.

TABLE 7 ControlResourceSet : : = SEQUENCE {  -- Corresponds to L1parameter ‘CORESET-ID’  controlResourceSetId  ControlResourceSetId, (control resource set identity)  frequencyDomainResources  BIT STRING(SIZE (45)),  (frequency domain resource  allocation information) duration  INTEGER (1. .maxCoReSetDuration) .  (time domain resource allocation information)  cce-to-REG mappingType   CHOICE {  (CCE-to-REGmapping method)   interleaved   SEQUENCE {    reg-BundleSize   ENUMERATED {n2, n3, n6}.   (REG buudle size )    precoderGranularity   ENUMERATED {sameAsREG-burdle, allContiguousRBs},    interleaverSize   ENUMERATED {n2, n3, n6}    shiftIndex  INTEGERC (0..maxNrofPhysicalResourceBlocks-1)  OPTIONAL   ( interleaver shift )  }. noninterleaved   NULL  } ,  tci-StatesPDCCH   SEQUENCE(SIZE(1..maxNrofTCI-StatesPDCCH)) OF TCI -Stateld OPTIONAL,  (QCLconfiguraton information)  tci-PresentInDCI   ENUMERATED {enabled}  OPTIONAL, --Need S

In Table 7, tci-StatesPDCCH (hereinafter referred to as ‘TCI state’)configuration information may include information about one or moresynchronization signal (SS)/physical broadcast channel (PBCH) blockindexes or channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) indexes,which have a quasi co-located (QCL) association with a demodulationreference signal (DMRS) transmitted in the corresponding CORESET. Inaddition, TCI state configuration information may include informationabout what association the QCL association indicates. For example,configuration information of a TCI state may include information asshown in Table 8 below.

TABLE 8 TCI-State ::= SEQUENCE {

 tci-StateId  TCI-StateId,

 qc1-Type1  QCL-Info,

 qc1-Type2  QCL-Info OPTIONAL,  . . . }

sequence (

QCL-Info : : = SEQUENCE {

 cell {^(cell index)}  ServCellIndex OPTIONAL,  bwp-Id {BWP index } BWP-Id OPTIONAL,  referenesSignal {reference RS index }  CHOICE {

  csi-rs   NZP-CSI-RS-RespurceID,

  ssb   SSB-Index

 },

 qcl-Type  ENUMERATED {typeA, typeB, typeC, typeD},

 . . . }

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Referring to the TCI state configuration, together with an index of areference RS in a QCL association, that is, an SS/PBCH block index or aCSI-RS index, a cell index and/or a BWP index of the reference RS and aQCL type may be configured. A QCL type indicates a channelcharacteristic assumed to be shared between the reference RS and theCORESET DMRS, and examples of possible QCL types are as follows.

QCL typeA: Doppler shift, Doppler spread, average delay, delay spread.

QCL typeB: Doppler shift, Doppler spread.

QCL typeC: Doppler shift, average delay.

QCL typeD: Spatial Rx parameter.

The TCI state configuration may also be similarly configured, not onlyfor the CORESET DMRS but also for other target RSs, such as PDSCH DMRSand CSI-RS. However, a detailed description thereof will be omitted soas not to obscure the gist of the description.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for describing a structure of a downlink controlchannel structure in a wireless communication system according to anembodiment of the disclosure,

In detail, FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a basic unitof time and frequency resources constituting a downlink control channelthat is usable in a 5G system, according to an embodiment of thedisclosure.

Referring to FIG. 5 , a basic unit of time and frequency resourcesconstituting a control channel may be defined as a resource elementgroup (REG) 5-03. The REG 5-03 may be defined as 1 OFDM symbol 5-01 onthe time domain and 1 physical resource block (PRB) 5-02 on thefrequency axis, that is, 12 subcarriers. The base station may configurea downlink control channel allocation unit by concatenating the REG5-03.

As illustrated in FIG. 5 , when the basic unit to which the downlinkcontrol channel is allocated in a 5G system is a control channel element(CCE) 5-04, one CCE 5-04 may include a plurality of REGs 5-03. In theexample illustrated in FIG. 5 , when the REG 5-03 includes 12 REs andone CCE 5-04 includes 6 REGs 503, one CCE 5-04 may include 72 REs. Whena downlink CORESET is configured, the downlink control resource set mayinclude a plurality of CCEs 5-04. A specific downlink control channelmay be transmitted by being mapped to one or more CCEs 5-04 according toan aggregation level (AL) in the CORESET. The CCEs 5-04 in the CORESETmay be identified by numbers. In this case, the numbers may be allocatedto the CCEs 5-04 according to a logical mapping scheme.

The basic unit of the downlink control channel illustrated in FIG. 5 ,that is, the REG 5-03, may include both of REs to which the DCI ismapped and regions to which a DMRS 5-05, which is a reference signal fordecoding the same, is mapped. As illustrated in FIG. 5 , three DMRSs5-05 may be transmitted in one REG 5-03. The number of CCEs required totransmit a PDCCH may be 1, 2, 4, 8, or 16 depending on an aggregationlevel (AL), and the different numbers of CCEs may be used to implementlink adaptation of a downlink control channel. For example, when AL=L,one downlink control channel may be transmitted through L CCEs.

A terminal should detect a signal without knowing information about thedownlink control channel, and a search space indicating a set of CCEsfor blind decoding may be defined. A search space is a set of downlinkcontrol channel candidates consisting of CCEs which a terminal has totry decoding on a given AL. As there are various kinds of ALs forcreating one bundle from 1, 2, 4, 8, or 16 CCEs, the terminal may havemultiple search spaces. A search space set may be defined as a set ofsearch spaces at all the configured ALs.

The search spaces may be classified into common search spaces andUE-specific search spaces. According to an embodiment of the disclosure,a certain group of terminals or all terminals may search a common searchspace of a PDCCH in order to receive cell-common control informationsuch as dynamic scheduling for system information or a paging message.

For example, the terminal may receive PDSCH scheduling allocationinformation for transmission of SIB including operator information of acell by examining the common search space of the PDCCH. The commonsearch space may be defined as a set of previously appointed CCEsbecause a certain group of terminals or all the terminals have toreceive the PDCCH. The terminal may receive scheduling allocationinformation for a UE-specific PDSCH or PUSCH by investigating aUE-specific search space of a PDCCH. The UE-specific search space may beUE-specifically defined as a function of various system parameters andan identity of the terminal.

In a 5G system, parameters for a search space of a PDCCH may beconfigured by a base station in a terminal through higher layersignaling (e.g., SIB, MIB, or RRC signaling). For example, the basestation may configure, for the terminal, the number of PDCCH candidatesin each of the L ALs, a monitoring period for the search space, amonitoring occasion of a symbol unit within a slot for the search space,a search space type (common search space or UE-specific search space), acombination of a DCI format and RNTI to be monitored in the searchspace, and a CORESET index for monitoring the search space. For example,the above-described configuration may include information as shown inTable 9 below.

TABLE 9 SearchSpace ::=  SEQUENCE {   -- identity of the search space.SearchSpaceId = 0 identifies the SearchSpace configured via PBCH (MIB)or ServingCellConfigCommon.   searchSpaceId   SearchSpaceId, (searchSpace )   identity   controlResourceSetId  ControlResourceSetId,  (control resource )   set identity monitoringSlotPeriodicityAndOffset   CHOICE {  (monitoring slotlevel )  periodicity   sl1    NULL..   sl2    INTEGER (0..1),   sl4    INTEGER(0..3),   sl5    INTEGER (0..4),   sl8    INTEGER (0..7),   sl10   INTEGER (0..9),   sl16    INTEGER (0..15),   sl20    INTEGER (0..19), } OPTICAL,  duration (monitoring )    INTEGER (2..2559),      duration monitoringSymbolsWithinSlot     BIT STRING (SIZE (14))  OPTIONAL, (monitoring symbolsinslot )   nrofCandidates   SEQUENCE { (numberofPDCCH candidates for )   each aggregationLevel  aggregationLevel1    ENUMERATED {n0, n1, n2, n3, n4, n5, n8},  aggregationLevel2    ENUMERATED {n0, n1, n2, n3, n4, n5, n8},  aggregationLevel4    ENUMERATED {n0, n1, n2, n3, n4, n5, n8},  aggregationLevel8    ENUMERATED {n0, n1, n2, n3, n4, n5, n8},  aggregationLevel16    ENUMERATED {n0, n1, n2, n3, n4, n5, n8},  }, searchSpaceType   CHOICE {   -- Configures this search space as commonspace (CSS) and DCI formats to monitor.   common    SEQUENCE {  (commonsearch )   apass 

  }    ue-Specific    SEQUENCE {  (UE-specificsearch )   space    --Indicates whether the UE monitors in this USS for DCI formats 0-0 and1-0 or for formats 0-1 and 1-1.    formats     ENUMERATED(formats0-0-And-1-0, formats s0-1-And-1-1).    ...     }

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The base station may configure for the terminal one or more search spacesets based on configuration information. According to an embodiment ofthe disclosure, the base station may configure search space set 1 andsearch space set 2 for the terminal, may configure DCI format Ascrambled by an X-RNTI in the search space set 1 to be monitored in thecommon search space, and may configure DCI format B scrambled by aY-RNTI in the search space set 2 to be monitored in the UE-specificsearch space.

According to the configuration information, one or more search spacesets may exist in the common search space or the UE-specific searchspace. For example, a search space set #1 and a search space set #2 maybe configured in the common search space, and a search space set #3 anda search space set #4 may be configured in the UE-specific search space.

In the common search space, the following combinations of DCI formatsand RNTIs may be monitored. However, the disclosure is not limitedthereto.

DCI format 0_0/1_0 with CRC scrambled by C-RNTI, CS-RNTI, SP-CSI-RNTI,RA-RNTI, TC-RNTI, P-RNTI, SI-RNTI

DCI format 2_0 with CRC scrambled by SFI-RNTI

DCI format 2_1 with CRC scrambled by INT-RNTI

DCI format 2_2 with CRC scrambled by TPC-PUSCH-RNTI, TPC-PUCCH-RNTI

DCI format 2_3 with CRC scrambled by TPC-SRS-RNTI

In the UE-specific search space, the following combinations of DCIformats and RNTIs may be monitored. However, the UCI is not limitedthereto.

DCI format 0_0/1_0 with CRC scrambled by C-RNTI, CS-RNTI, TC-RNTI

DCI format 1_0/1_1 with CRC scrambled by C-RNTI, CS-RNTI, TC-RNTI

Specified RNTIs may comply with the following definitions and uses.

C-RNTI (Cell RNTI): used for UE-specific PDSCH scheduling

TC-RNTI (Temporary Cell RNTI): used for UE-specific PDSCH scheduling

CS-RNTI (Configured Scheduling RNTI): used for semi-staticallyconfigured UE-specific PDSCH scheduling

RA-RNTI (Random Access RNTI): used for PDSCH scheduling in a randomaccess process

P-RNTI (Paging RNTI): used for scheduling a PDSCH on which paging istransmitted

SI-RNTI (System information RNTI): used for scheduling a PDSCH on whichsystem information is transmitted

INT-RNTI (Interruption RNTI): used for indicating whether to puncturethe PDSCH

TPC-PUSCH-RNTI (Transmit Power Control for PUSCH RNTI): used forindicating power control command for a PUSCH

TPC-PUCCH-RNTI (Transmit Power Control for PUCCH RNTI): used forindicating power control command for a PUCCH

TPC-SRS-RNTI (Transmit Power Control for SRS RNTI): used for indicatingpower control command for an SRS

In an embodiment, the DCI formats described above may be defined as inTable 10 below.

TABLE 10 DCI format Usage 0_0 Scheduling of PUSCH in one cell 0_1Scheduling of PUSCH in one cell 1_0 Scheduling of PDSCH in one cell 1_1Scheduling of PDSCH in one cell 2_0 Notifying a group of UEs of the slotformat 2_1 Notifying a group of UEs of the PRB(s) and OFDM symbol(s)where UE may assume no transmission is intended for the UE 2_2Transmission of TPC commands for PUCCH and PUSCH 2_3 Transmission of agroup of TPC commands for SRS transmissions by one or more UEs

According to an embodiment of the disclosure, in a 5G system, aplurality of search space sets may be configured with differentparameters (e.g., parameters of Table 8). Accordingly, a set of searchspace sets monitored by the terminal at every time point may bedifferent. For example, when the search space set #1 is configured withan X-slot period, and the search space set #2 is configured with aY-slot period, and X and Y are different from each other, the terminalmay monitor both the search space set #1 and the search space set #2 ina certain slot, and may monitor one of the search space set #1 and thesearch space set #2 in a certain slot.

When a plurality of search space sets are configured for the terminal,in order to determine a search space set to be monitored by theterminal, following conditions may be considered.

[Condition 1: Limit the Maximum Number of PDCCH Candidates]

The number of PDCCH candidates that may be monitored per slot may notexceed M^(μ). M^(μ) may be defined as the maximum number of PDCCHcandidates per slot in a cell configured with a subcarrier spacing of15·2^(μ) kHz, and may be defined as shown in Table 11 below.

TABLE 11 Maximum number of PDCCH candidates μ per slot and per servingcell (M^(μ)) 0 44 1 36 2 22 3 20

[Condition 2: Limit the Maximum Number of CCEs]

The number of CCEs constituting the entire search space per slot (here,the entire search space may refer to an entire CCE set corresponding toa union region of a plurality of search space sets) may not exceedC^(μ). C^(μ) may be defined as the maximum number of CCEs per slot in acell configured with a subcarrier spacing of 15·2^(μ) kHz, and may bedefined as shown in Table 12 below.

TABLE 12 Maximum number of CCEs per slot and per serving μ cell (C^(μ))0 56 1 56 2 48 3 32

For convenience of description, a situation in which both Conditions 1and 2 above are satisfied at a specific time point may be defined as“Condition A” as an example, Accordingly, when Condition A is notsatisfied, it may mean that at least one of Conditions 1 and 2 above issatisfied.

According to the configuration of the search space sets of the basestation, Condition A may not be satisfied at a specific time point. WhenCondition A is not satisfied at a specific time point, the terminal mayselect and monitor only some of the search space sets configured tosatisfy Condition A at the corresponding time point, and the basestation may transmit a PDCCH to the selected search space set.

According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a method as below may beused as a method of selecting some search spaces from among all ofconfigured search space sets.

When Condition A for a PDCCH is not satisfied at a specific time point(slot), the terminal (or the base station) may preferentially select asearch space set in which a search space type is configured as a commonsearch space among search space sets existing at the corresponding timepoint, in preference to a search space set configured as a UE-specificsearch space.

When all search space sets configured as a common search space areselected (that is, Condition A is satisfied even after selecting allsearch spaces configured as the common search space), the terminal (orthe base station) may select search space sets configured as UE-specificsearch spaces. Here, when there are a plurality of search space setsconfigured as the UE-specific search space, a search space set having alow search space set index may have a higher priority. Considering thepriority, the terminal or the base station may select UE-specific searchspace sets within a range in which Condition A is satisfied.

Methods of allocating time and frequency resources for data transmissionin an NR (or 5G) system are described below.

In an NR (or 5G) system, specific frequency domain resource allocation(FD-RA) methods as below may be provided in addition to frequency-axisresource candidate allocation through I3WP indication.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of frequency-axis resourceallocation of a PDSCH in a wireless communication system according to anembodiment of the disclosure,

In detail, FIG. 6 illustrates type 0 (6-00) and type 1 (6-05), which areconfigurable through higher layer in an NR (5G) system, and threefrequency-axis resource allocation methods of dynamic switch 6-10.

Referring to FIG. 6 , when a terminal is configured to use only resourcetype 0, through higher layer signaling (6-00), some downlink controlinformation (DCI) for allocating PDSCH to the terminal has a bitmapconsisting of NRBG bits. The conditions for the above will be describedagain later. Here, NRBG refers to the number of resource block groups(RBGs) determined as shown in Table 13 below according to a BWP sizeallocated by a BWP indicator and a higher layer parameter rbg-Size, anddata is transmitted on RBG indicated as 1 by the bitmap.

TABLE 13 Bandwidth Part Size Configuration 1 Configuration 2  1-36  2  4 37-72  4  8  73-144  8 16 145-275 16 16

When the terminal is configured to use only resource type 1, throughhigher layer signaling (6-05), some DCI for allocating PDSCH to theterminal has frequency-axis resource allocation information consistingof └log₂(N_(RB) ^(DL,BWP)(N_(RB) ^(DL,BWP)+1)/2)┐ bits. The conditionsfor the above will be described again later. The base station mayaccordingly configure a starting virtual resource block (VRB) 6-20 and alength 6-25 of a frequency-axis resource continuously allocatedtherefrom.

When the terminal is configured to use both resource type 0 and resourcetype 1, through higher layer signaling (6-10), some DCI for allocatingPDSCH to the terminal has frequency-axis resource allocation informationconsisting of bits of a greater value 6-35 among a payload 6-15 forconfiguring resource type 0 and payloads 6-20 and 6-25 for configuringresource type 1. The conditions for the above will be described againlater. Here, one bit may be added to a most significant byte (MSB) offrequency-axis resource allocation information in DCI, and when thecorresponding bit is 0, it may be indicated that resource type 0 isused, and when the corresponding bit is 1, it may be indicated thatresource type 1 is used.

A time-domain resource allocation method for a data channel in anext-generation mobile communication system (5G or NR system) isdescribed below.

A base station may configure, for a terminal via higher layer signaling(for example, RRC signaling), a table about time domain resourceallocation information for a PDSCH and a PUSCH. For the PDSCH, a tableconsisting of up to maxNrofDL-Allocations=16 entries may be configured,and for the PUSCH, a table consisting of up to maxNrofUL-Allocations=16entries may be configured. In an embodiment, the time domain resourceallocation information may include a PDCCH-to-PDSCH slot timing(corresponding to a time interval in a slot unit between a time pointwhen the PDCCH is received and a time point when the PDSCH scheduled bythe received PDCCH is transmitted, and marked as K₀), a PDCCH-to-PUSCHslot timing (corresponding to a time interval in a slot unit between atime point when the PDCCH is received and a time point when the PUSCHscheduled by the received PDCCH is transmitted, and marked as K₂),information about a location and length of a start symbol where thePDSCH or PUSCH is scheduled within a slot, and a mapping type of thePDCH or PUSCH. For example, a plurality of pieces of information asshown in Table 14 or Table 15 may be notified by the base station to theterminal.

TABLE 14 PDSCH-TimeDomainResourceAllocationList information elementPDSCH-TimeDomainResourceAllocationList ::= SEQUENCE(SIZE(1..maxNrofDL-Allocations)) OF PDSCH-TimeDomainResourceAllocationPDSCH-TimeDomainResourceAllocation :=  SEQUENCE {  k0   INTEGER(0..32)OPTIONAL, -- Need S  (PDCCH-to-PDSCH timing, slot unit ) mappingTypeENUMERATED {typeA, typeB},  (PDSCH mapping  )      typestartSymbolAndLength INTEGER (0..127) (start symbol and length of ) PDSCH }

TABLE 15 PUSCH-TimeDomainResourceAllocation information elementPUSCH-TimeDomainResourceAllocationList ::=   SEQUENCE (SIZE(1..maxNrof(UL-Allocations)) OF PUSCH-TimeDomainResourceAllocationPUSCH-TimeDomainResourceAllocation :: = SEQUENCE {  k2 INTEGER(0..32)    OPTIONAL, -- Need S  (PDCCH-to-PUSCH timing, slotunit )  mappingType  ENUMERATED {typeA, typeB},  (PUSCH mapping )    type  startSymbolAndLength  INTEGER (0..127)  (start symbol andlength of )   PUSCH }

The base station may notify the terminal of one of the entries in thetable of the time domain resource allocation information, via L1signaling (for example, DCI) (for example, indicated via a ‘time domainresource allocation’ field within DCI). The terminal may obtain the timedomain resource allocation information for the PDSCH or PUSCH, based onthe DCI received from the base station.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of PDSCH time domainresource allocation in a wireless communication system according to anembodiment of the disclosure.

Referring to FIG. 7 , the base station may indicate a time domainlocation of PDSCH resources, according to subcarrier spacings (SCS)(μ_(PDSCH), μ_(PDCCH)) of a data channel and a control channelconfigured by using a higher layer, a scheduling offset K₀ value, and anOFDM symbol start position 7-00 and a length 7-05 in one slotdynamically indicated through DCI.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of time domain resourceallocation according to subcarrier spacings of a data channel and acontrol channel in a wireless communication system according to anembodiment of the disclosure.

Referring to FIG. 8 , when the subcarrier spacings of the data channeland the control channel are the same (8-00, μ_(PDSCH)=μ_(PDCCH)), theslot numbers for data and control are the same, and thus, the basestation and the terminal may know that scheduling offset occurs inaccordance with a predefined slot offset K₀. On the other hand, when thesubcarrier spacings of the data channel and the control channel aredifferent (8-05, μ_(PDSCH)≠μ_(PDCCH)), the slot numbers for data andcontrol are different, and thus, the base station and the terminal mayknow that scheduling offset occurs in accordance with the predefinedslot offset K₀ based on a subcarrier spacing of a PDCCH.

In an LTE system or an NR system, the terminal may perform a procedurefor reporting capability supported by the terminal, to the correspondingbase station, while connected to a serving base station. In thedescription below, this is referred to as a UE capability (report).

The base station may transmit a UE capability inquiry message forrequesting a capability report to the terminal in a connected state. TheUE capability inquiry message may include a UE capability request foreach Radio Access Technology (RAT) type of the base station. The requestfor each RAT type may include requested frequency band information. Inaddition, in the case of the UE capability inquiry message, one RRCmessage container may request UE capability for a plurality of RATtypes, or the base station may include a UE capability inquiry messageincluding a UE capability request for each RAT type, a plurality oftimes, and transmit the same to the terminal. That is, the UE capabilityinquiry may be repeated a plurality of times, and the terminal mayconfigure a corresponding UE capability information message and reportthe same a plurality of times. In a wireless communication system, UEcapability for multi-RAT dual connectivity (MR-DC) including NR, LTE,and E-UTRA—NR dual connectivity (EN-DC) may be requested. In addition,the UE capability inquiry message is generally transmitted initiallyafter the terminal is connected to the base station, but when the basestation requires, the message may be requested under any conditions.

Upon receiving a UE capability report request from the base station, theterminal may configure UE capability according to a RAT type and bandinformation requested by the base station. A method for a terminal toconfigure UE capability in the NR system is as follows.

1. When the terminal receives a list of LTE and/or NR bands upon a UEcapability request from the base station, the terminal configures a bandcombination (BC) for EN-DC and NR stand alone (SA). That is, theterminal configures a candidate list of BC for EN-DC and NR SA based onbands requested by the base station through FreqBandList. In addition,the bands have priorities in the order described in the FreqBandList.

2. When the base station has set a “eutra-nr-only” flag or an “eutra”flag and requested UE capability report, the terminal completely removesthose related to NR SA BCs from the configured BC candidate list. Theoperation as above may occur only when an LTE base station (eNB)requests “eutra” capability.

3. Next, the terminal removes fallback BCs from the configured BCcandidate list. The fallback BCs refer to BCs that may be obtained byremoving a band corresponding to at least one SCell in an arbitrary BC,and a BC may cover already fallback BC before removing the bandcorresponding to at least one SCell, and thus the fallback BC may beomitted. The above operation is also applied to MR-DC, that is, may alsobe applied to LTE bands. BCs remaining after the above operation are afinal “candidate BC list”.

4. The terminal may select BCs that are suitable for a requested RATtype in the final “candidate BC list” and select BCs to be reported. Inthis operation, the terminal configures supportedBandCombinationList ina set order. That is, the terminal configures BC and UE capability to bereported according to a preset order of rat-Types. (nr→eutra-nr→eutra).In addition, the terminal configures a featureSetCombination for theconfigured supportedBandCombinationList, and configures a list of“candidate feature set combination” in the candidate BC list from whichthe list for fallback BC (including the capability of the same or lowerlevel) is removed. “Candidate feature set combination” includes bothfeature set combinations for NR and EUTRA-NR BC, and may be obtainedfrom a feature set combination of UE-NR-Capabilities andUE-MRDC-Capabilities containers.

5. Also, when a requested rat Type is eutra-nr and has an impact,featureSetCombinations is included in both containers ofUE-MRDC-Capabilities and UE-NR-Capabilities. However, the feature set ofNR includes only UE-NR-Capabilities.

After the UE capability is configured, the terminal transmits a UEcapability information message including the UE capability to the basestation. The base station then performs scheduling andtransmission/reception management appropriate for a correspondingterminal based on the UE capability received from the terminal.

In NR, the terminal transmits uplink control information (UCI) to thebase station through a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). Thecontrol information may include at least one of HARQ-ACK indicatingwhether demodulation/decoding for a transport block (TB) received by theterminal through a PDSCH is successful, a scheduling request (SR) by theterminal requesting resource allocation from a PUSCH base station foruplink data transmission, and channel state information (CSI), which isinformation for reporting a channel state of the terminal.

PUCCH resources may be largely divided into a long PUCCH and a shortPUCCH according to a length of an allocated symbol. In NR, a long PUCCHhas a length of 4 symbols or more in a slot, and a short PUCCH has alength of 2 symbols or less in a slot.

To describe the long PUCCH in more detail, the long PUCCH may be usedfor the purpose of improving uplink cell coverage, and thus may betransmitted in a DFT-S-OFDM scheme, which is a single carriertransmission rather than OFDM transmission. The long PUCCH supportstransport formats such as PUCCH format 1, PUCCH format 3, and PUCCHformat 4 according to the number of supportable control information bitsand whether terminal multiplexing is supported through Pre-DFT OCCsupport at the front stage of IFFT.

First, PUCCH format 1 is a DFT-S-OFDM-based long PUCCH format capable ofsupporting up to 2 bits of control information, and uses frequencyresources corresponding to 1RB. The control information may include eachor a combination of HARQ-ACK and SR. In PUCCH format 1, an OFDM symbolincluding a DeModulation Reference Signal (DMRS), which is ademodulation reference signal (or reference signal), and an OFDM symbolincluding UCI are repeatedly configured.

For example, when the number of transmission symbols of PUCCH format 1is 8 symbols, in sequence from the first start symbol of the 8 symbols,PUCCH format 1 may include a DMRS symbol, an Uplink Control Information(UCI) symbol, a DMRS symbol, a UCI symbol, a DMRS symbol, a UCI symbol,a DMRS symbol, and a UCI symbol. The DMRS symbol has a structure inwhich a sequence corresponding to a length of one RB on the frequencydomain is spread by using an orthogonal code (or an orthogonal sequenceor spreading code w_i(m)) on the time domain within one OFDM symbol andis transmitted after IFFT is performed thereon.

The UCI symbol may be generated as below. The terminal may generate d(0)by performing BPSK modulation on 1-bit control information and QPSKmodulation on 2-bit control information, perform scrambling bymultiplying the generated d(0) by a sequence corresponding to a lengthof 1 RB on the frequency domain, and spread the scrambled sequence byusing an orthogonal code (or an orthogonal sequence or spreading codew_i(m)) on the time domain and transmit the sequence after IFFT isperformed thereon.

The terminal generates a sequence based on the set ID and group hoppingor sequence hopping configuration set by the higher layer signal fromthe base station, and generates a sequence corresponding to a length of1 RB by cyclic-shifting the generated sequence with an initial cyclicshift (CS) value configured by a higher layer signal.

wi(m) is determined as

w_(i)(m) = e? ?indicates text missing or illegible when filed

when a length NSF of a spreading code is given, and is given as Table 16below in detail. i represents the index of the spreading code itself,and m represents the indices of elements of the spreading code. Here,the numbers in [ ] in Table 16 denote ϕ(m), and for example, when alength of a spreading code is 2, and an index i=0 of a configuredspreading code, the spreading code wi(m) is w_(i)(0)=e^(f2n·0/N) ^(SF)=1, w_(i)(1)=e^(f2n·0/N) ^(SF) =1, and thus, wi(m)=[1 1].

TABLE 16 spreading code w_(i)(m) = e^(f2π(m)/N) ^(SF) for PUCCH format 1ϕ(m) N_(SF) i = 0 i = 1 i = 2 i = 3 i = 4 i = 5 i = 6 1 [0] — — — — — —2 [0 0] [0 1] — — — — — 3 [0 0 0] [0 1 2] [0 2 1] — — — — 4 [0 0 0 0] [02 0 2] [0 0 2 2] [0 2 2 0] — — — 5 [0 0 0 0 0] [0 1 2 3 4] [0 2 4 1 3][0 3 1 4 2] [0 4 3 2 1] — — 6 [0 0 0 0 0 0] [0 1 2 3 4 5] [0 2 4 0 2 4][0 3 0 3 0 3] [0 4 2 0 4 2] [0 5 4 3 2 1] — 7 [0 0 0 0 0 0 0] [0 1 2 3 45 6] [0 2 4 6 1 3 5] [0 3 6 2 5 1 4] [0 4 1 5 2 6 3] [0 5 3 1 6 4 2] [06 5 4 3 2 1]

Next, PUCCH format 3 is a long PUCCH format based on UFT-S-OFDM capableof supporting more than 2 bits of control information, and the number ofRBs to be used may be configured by a higher layer. The controlinformation may include each or a combination of HARQ-ACK, SR, and CSI.In PUCCH format 3, DMRS symbol positions are presented in Table 17according to whether frequency hopping is performed in a slot andwhether additional DMRS symbols are configured.

TABLE 17 DMRS location within PUCCH ¾ transmission additional DMRSadditional DMRS PUCCH format not configured configured ¾ frequencyfrequency frequency frequency transmission hopping not hopping hoppingnot hopping length configured configured configured configured  4 1 0, 21 0, 2  5 0, 3 0, 3  6 1, 4 1, 4  7 1, 4 1, 4  8 1, 5 1, 5  9 1, 6 1, 610 2, 7 1, 3, 6, 8 11 2, 7 1, 3, 6, 9 12 2, 8 1, 4, 7, 10 13 2, 9 1, 4,7, 11 14 3, 10 1, 5, 8, 12

For example, when the number of transmission symbols of PUCCH format 3is eight, the DMRS is transmitted on the first symbol and the fifthsymbol, while starting from the first start symbol of the eight symbolsas 0. Table 17 is also applied to the DMRS symbol positions of PUCCHformat 4 in the same manner.

Next, PUCCH format 4 is a long DFT-S-OFDM-based long PUCCH formatcapable of supporting up to 2 bits of control information, and usesfrequency resources corresponding to 1 RB. The control information mayinclude each or a combination of HARQ-ACK, SR, and CSI. PUCCH format 4differs from PUCCH format 3 in that, in the case of PUCCH format 4,PUCCH format 4 of multiple terminals may be multiplexed within one RB.PUCCH format 4 of multiple terminals may be multiplexed by applyingPre-UFT OCC to control information at the front stage of the IFFT.However, the number of symbols of one terminal for transmitting controlinformation is reduced according to the number of multiplexed terminals.The number of multiplexable terminals, that is, the number of differentavailable orthogonal cover codes (OCCs) may be 2 or 4, and the number ofOCCs and an OCC index to be applied may be set through a higher layer.

Next, the short PUCCH will be described. The short PUCCH may betransmitted on both a downlink centric slot and an uplink centric slot,and transmitted, in general, from the last symbol of the slot or an OFDMsymbol at the rear (e.g., the last OFDM symbol or a second-to-last OFDMsymbol, or the last two OFDM symbols). Of course, the short PUCCH may betransmitted at any position within the slot. The short PUCCH may betransmitted by using one OFDM symbol, or two OFDM symbols. The shortPUCCH may be used for delay time reduction compared to a long PUCCH in asituation with good uplink cell coverage, and is transmitted using aCP-OFDM method.

The short PUCCH supports transmission formats such as PUCCH format 0 andPUCCH format 2 according to the number of supportable bits of controlinformation. First, PUCCH format 0 is a short PUCCH format capable ofsupporting up to 2 bits of control information, and uses frequencyresources corresponding to 1 RB. The control information may includeeach or a combination of HARQ-ACK and SR. PUCCH format 0 has a structurein which DMRS is not transmitted and only a sequence mapped to 12subcarriers on the frequency domain within one OFDM symbol istransmitted. The terminal generates a sequence based on the set ID andgroup hopping or sequence hopping configuration set by the higher layersignal from the base station, cyclic-shifts the generated sequence witha final CS obtained by adding a CS value according to ACK or NACK to anindicated initial CS value, maps the sequence to 12 subcarriers, andtransmits the mapped sequence.

For example, when HARQ-ACK is 1 bit, when HARQ-ACK is ACK as shown inTable 18, the terminal may add 6 to the initial CS value to generate thefinal CS, and when HARQ-ACK is NACK, the terminal may add 0 to theinitial CS to generate the final CS. 0 that is the CS value for NACK and6 that is the CS value for ACK are defined in the standard, and theterminal may always generate PUCCH format 0 according to the above valuedefined in the standard and transmit 1-bit HARQ-ACK.

TABLE 18 1 bit HARQ-ACK NACK ACK final CS (initial CS + 0) mod (initialCS + 6) 12 = initial CS mod 12

For example, in the case in which HARQ-ACK is 2 bits, as shown in Table19, the terminal may add 0 to the initial CS value when (NACK, NACK),add 3 to the initial CS value when (NACK, ACK), add 6 to the initial CSvalue when (ACK, ACK), and add 9 to the initial CS value when (ACK,NACK). 0 that is the CS value for (NACK, NACK), 3 that is the CS valuefor (NACK, ACK), 6 that is the CS value for (ACK, ACK), and 9 that isthe CS value for (ACK, NACK) are defined in the standard, and theterminal generates PUCCH format 0 according to the value defined in thestandard and transmits 2-bit HARQ-ACK.

When the final CS value, which is the CS value added according to ACK orNACK, is greater than 12, the length of the sequence is 12. Therefore,modulo 12 is applied to the final CS value.

TABLE 19 2 bit HARQ- ACK NACK, NACK NACK, ACK ACK, ACK ACK, NACK finalCS (initial CS + 0) (initial CS + 3) (initial CS + 6) (initial mod 12 =mod 12 mod 12 CS + 9) initial CS mod 12

Next, PUCCH format 1 is a short PUCCH format capable of supporting up to2 bits of control information, and the number of RBs to be used may beconfigured by a higher layer. The control information may include eachor a combination of HARQ-ACK, SR, and CSI. In PUCCH format 2, when theposition of the subcarrier on which the DMRS is transmitted within oneOFDM symbol may be fixed to subcarriers having indices of #1, #4, #7,and #10 when the index of the first subcarrier is #0. Controlinformation is mapped to the remaining subcarriers except for thesubcarrier in which the DMRS is located through a modulation processafter channel encoding.

In sum, a configurable value for each of PUCCH formats described aboveand ranges thereof may be as shown in Table 20. In the table below, acase in which a value does not need to be configured is indicated asN.A.

TABLE 20 PUCCH PUCCH PUCCH PUCCH PUCCH Format 0 Format 1 Format 2 Format3 Format 4 Starting symbol Configurability √ √ √ √ √ Value range 0-130-10 0-13 0-10 0-10 Number of Configurability √ √ √ √ √ symbols in aslot Value range 1, 2 4-14 1, 2 4-14 4-14 Index for Configurability √ √√ √ √ identifying Value range 0-274 0-274 0-274 0-274 0-274 starting PRBNumber of PRBs Configurability N.A. N.A. √ √ N.A. Value range N.A. N.A.1-16 1-6, 8-10, 12, 15, 16 N.A. (Default is 1) (Default is 1) (Defaultis 1) Enabling Configurability √ √ √ √ √ frequency Value range On/OffOn/Off On/Off On/Off On/Off hopping (only for 2 (only for 2 (intra-slot)symbol) symbol) Freq.cy resource Configurability √ √ √ √ √ of 2^(nd) hopif Value range 0-274 0-274 0-274 0-274 0-274 intra-slot frequencyhopping is enabled Index of initial Configurability √ √ N.A. N.A. N.A.cyclic shit Value range 0-11 0-11 N.A. N.A. N.A. Index ofConfigurability N.A. √ N.A. N.A. N.A. time-domain Value range N.A. 0-6N.A. N.A. N.A. OCC Length of Configurability N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. √Pre-DFT OCC Value range N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. 2, 4 Index of Pre-DFTConfigurability N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. √ OCC Value range N.A. N.A. N.A.N.A. 0, 1, 2, 3

Meanwhile, in order to improve uplink coverage, multi-slot repetitionmay be supported for PUCCH formats 1, 3, and 4, and PUCCH repetition maybe configured for each PUCCH format.

The terminal repeatedly transmits PUCCH including UCI as many as thenumber of slots configured through nrofSlots, which is higher layersignaling. For repeated PUCCH transmission, PUCCH transmission of eachslot is performed using the same number of consecutive symbols, and thenumber of corresponding consecutive symbols may be configured bynrofSymbols in PUCCH-format1 or PUCCH-format3 or PUCCH-format4, whichare higher layer signaling. For repeated PUCCH transmission, PUCCHtransmission of each slot is performed using the same start symbol, andthe corresponding start symbol may be configured by startingSymbolIndexin PUCCH-format1 or PUCCH-format3 or PUCCH-format4, which are higherlayer signaling.

For repeated PUCCH transmission, when the terminal is configured toperform frequency hopping in PUCCH transmission in different slots, theterminal performs frequency hopping in units of slots, In addition, whenthe terminal is configured to perform frequency hopping in PUCCHtransmission in different slots, the terminal starts PUCCH transmissionfrom the first PRB index configured through startingPRB, which is higherlayer signaling, in even-numbered slots, and starts PUCCH transmissionfrom the second PRB index configured through secondHopPRB, which ishigher layer signaling, in odd-number slots.

Additionally, when the terminal is configured to perform frequencyhopping in PUCCH transmission in different slots, the index of the slotin which the first PUCCH transmission is indicated to the terminal is 0,and during the configured total number of repeated PUCCH transmissions,in each slot, the value of the number of repeated PUCCH transmissions isincreased regardless of PUCCH transmission performance. When theterminal is configured to perform frequency hopping in PUCCHtransmission in different slots, the terminal does not expect thatfrequency hopping is configured in a slot during PUCCH transmission. Menthe terminal is not configured to perform frequency hopping in PUCCHtransmission in different slots, and is configured to perform frequencyhopping in a slot, the first and second PRB indexes are equally appliedin a slot.

Next, PUCCH resource configuration of a base station or a terminal isdescribed. The base station may configure PUCCH resources for each BWPthrough higher layer for a certain terminal. The correspondingconfiguration may be as shown in Table 21.

TABLE 21 PUCCH-Config ::= SEQUENCE {  resourceSetToAddModList    SEQUENCE (SIZE (1..maxNrofPUCCH-ResourceSets)) OFPUCCH-ResourceSet OPTIONAL, -- Need N  resourceSetToReleaseList    SEQUENCE (SIZE (1..maxNrofPUCCH-ResourceSets)) OF PUCCH-ResourceSetIdOPTIONAL, -- Need N  resourceToAddModList    SEQUENCE (SIZE(1..maxNrofPUCCH-Resources)) OF PUCCH-Resource  OPTIONAL, -- Need N resourceToReleaseList    SEQUENCE (SIZE (1..maxNrofPUCCH-Resources)) OFPUCCH-ResourceId  OPTIONAL, -- Need N  format1  SetupRelease {PUCCH-FormatConfig } OPTIONAL, -- Need M  format2  SetupRelease {PUCCH-FormatConfig } OPTIONAL, -- Need M  format3  SetupRelease {PUCCH-FormatConfig } OPTIONAL, -- Need M  format4  SetupRelease {PUCCH-FormatConfig } OPTIONAL, -- Need M schedulingRequestResourceToAddModList SEQUENCE (SIZE (1..maxNrofSR-Resources)) OF SchedulingRequestResourceConfig OPTIONAL, --Need N  schedulingRequestResourceToReleaseList SEQUENCE (SIZE (1..maxNrofSR-Resources)) OF SchedulingRequestResourceId OPTIONAL, -- Need N multi-CSI-PUCCH-ResourceList     SEQUENCE (SIZE (1..2)) OFPUCCH-ResourceId OPTIONAL, -- Need M  dl-DataToUL-ACK   SEQUENCE (SIZE(1..8)) OF INTEGER (0..15) OPTIONAL, -- Need M spatialRelationInfoToAddModList     SEQUENCE (SIZE(1..maxNrofSpatialRelationInfos)) OF PUCCH-SpatialRelationInfo OPTIONAL,-- Need N  spatialRelationInfoReleaseList     SEQUENCE (SIZE(1..maxNrofSpatialRelationInfos)) OF PUCCH-SpatialRelationInfoIdOPTIONAL, -- Need N  pucch-PowerControl    PUCCH-PowerControl OPTIONAL,-- Need M  ... }

According to the table above, one or a plurality of PUCCH resource setsin the PUCCH resource configuration for a specific BWP may beconfigured, and a maximum payload value for UCI transmission may beconfigured in some of the PUCCH resource sets. One or multiple PUCCHresources may belong to each PUCCH resource set, and each PUCCH resourcemay belong to one of the above-described PUCCH formats.

With respect to the PUCCH resource set, a maximum payload value of thefirst PUCCH resource set may be fixed to 2 bits, and accordingly, thecorresponding value may not be separately configured through a higherlayer or the like. When the remaining PUCCH resource sets areconfigured, the index of the corresponding PUCCH resource sets may beconfigured in an ascending order according to the maximum payload value,and the maximum payload value may not be configured in a last PUCCHresource set. The higher layer configuration for the PUCCH resource setmay be as shown in Table 22.

TABLE 22 -- A set with one or more PUCCH resources PUCCH-ResourceSet ::= SEQUENCE {  pucch-ResourceSetId    PUCCH-ResourceSetId,  resourceListSEQUENCE (SIZE (1..maxNrofPUCCH-ResourcesPerSet)) OF PUCCH-ResourceId, maxPayloadMinus1   INTEGER (4..256) OPTIONAL -- Need R }

A resourceList parameter of the table above may include IDs of PUCCHresources belonging to the PUCCH resource set.

During an initial access or when the PUCCH resource set is notconfigured, the PUCCH resource set as shown in the following Table 23,which is composed of a plurality of cell-specific PUCCH resources in theinitial BWP, may be used. The PUCCH resources to be used for initialaccess in this PUCCH resource set may be indicated through SIB1.

TABLE 23 PUCCH First Number PRB offset Set of initial Index formatsymbol of symbols RB_(BWP) ^(offset) CS indexes  0 0 12  2 0 {0, 3}  1 012  2 0 {0, 4, 8}  2 0 12  2 3 {0, 4, 8}  3 1 10  4 0 {0, 6}  4 1 10  40 {0, 3, 6, 9}  5 1 10  4 2 {0, 3, 6, 9}  6 1 10  4 4 {0, 3, 6, 9}  7 1 4 10 0 {0, 6}  8 1  4 10 0 {0, 3, 6, 9}  9 1  4 10 2 {0, 3, 6, 9} 10 1 4 10 4 {0, 3, 6, 9} 11 1  0 14 0 {0, 6} 12 1  0 14 0 {0, 3, 6, 9} 13 1 0 14 2 {0, 3, 6, 9} 14 1  0 14 4 {0, 3, 6, 9} 15 1  0 14 [N_(BWP)^(size)/4] {0, 3, 6, 9}

The maximum payload of each PUCCH resource included in the PUCCHresource set may be 2 bits in the case of PUCCH format 0 or 1, and inthe case of the other formats, the maximum payload may be determined bya symbol length, the number of PRBs, and a maximum code rate. The symbollength and number of PRBs described above may be configured for eachPUCCH resource, and the maximum code rate may be configured for eachPUCCH format.

Next, PUCCH resource selection for UCI transmission will be described.In the case of SR transmission, the PUCCH resource for the SRcorresponding to schedulingRequestID may be configured through a higherlayer as shown in the following Table 24. The PUCCH resource may be aresource belonging to PUCCH format 0 or PUCCH format 1.

TABLE 24 SchedulingRequestResourceConfig ::= SEQUENCE { schedulingRequestResourceId   SchedulingRequestResourceId, schedulingRequestID  SchedulingRequestId,  periodicityAndOffset  CHOICE{   sym2    NULL,   sym6or7     NULL,   sl1    NULL,      -- Recurs inevery slot   sl2    INTEGER (0..1),   sl4    INTEGER (0..3),   sl5   INTEGER (0..4),   sl8    INTEGER (0..7),   sl10    INTEGER (0..9),  sl16    INTEGER (0..15),   sl20    INTEGER (0..19),   sl40    INTEGER(0..39),   sl80    INTEGER (0..79),   sl160    INTEGER (0..159),   sl320   INTEGER (0..319),   sl640    INTEGER (0..639),  } OPTIONAL, -- Need MPCCH-ResourceId  resource OPTIONAL -- Need M }

For the configured PUCCH resource, the transmission period and offsetare configured through periodicityAndOffset parameter of Table 24. Whenthere is uplink data to be transmitted by the terminal, at a time pointcorresponding to the configured period and offset, the correspondingPUCCH resource is transmitted, and otherwise, the corresponding PUCCHresource may not be transmitted.

In the case of CSI transmission, a PUCCH resource for transmitting aperiodic CSI report or a semi-persistent CSI report through PUCCH may beconfigured in the pucch-CSI-ResourceList parameter as shown in thefollowing Table 25 via higher layer signaling. The parameter includes alist of PUCCH resources for each BWP for a cell or CC to transmit thecorresponding CSI report. The PUCCH resource may be a resource belongingto PUCCH format 2 or PUCCH format 3 or PUCCH format 4.

TABLE 25 CSI-ReportConfig ::= SEQUENCE {  reportConfigId  CSI-ReportConfigId,  carrier  ServCellIndex        OPTIONAL, -- Need S ...  reportConfigType   CHOICE {   periodic    SEQUENCE {   reportSlotConfig      CSI-ReportPeriodicityAndOffset,   pucch-CSI-ResourceList       SEQUENCE (SIZE (1..maxNrofBWPs)) OFPUCCH-CSI-Resource   },   semiPersistentOnPUCCH     SEQUENCE {   reportSlotConfig      CSI-ReportPeriodicityAndOffset,   pucch-CSI-ResourceList       SEQUENCE (SIZE (1..maxNrofBWPs)) OFPUCCH-CSI-Resource   },  ... }

A transmission period and an offset of the PUCCH resource are configuredthrough reportSlotConfig of Table 23.

In the case of HARQ-ACK transmission, a resource set of a PUCCH resourceto be transmitted is first selected according to a payload of UCIincluding the corresponding HARQ-ACK. That is, a PUCCH resource sethaving a minimum payload which is not smaller than the UCI payload isselected. Next, a PUCCH resource in the PUCCH resource set may beselected through a PUCCH resource indicator (PRI) in DCI scheduling a TBcorresponding to the HARQ-ACK, and the PRI may be a PUCCH resourceindicator specified in Table 5 or Table 6. The relationship between thePRI configured via higher layer signaling and the PUCCH resourceselected from the PUCCH resource set may be as shown in Table 26 below.

TABLE 26 PUCCH resource PUCCH indicator resource ‘000’ 1^(st) PUCCHresource provided by pucch-ResourceId obtained from the 1^(st) value ofresourceList ‘001’ 2^(nd) PUCCH resource provided by pucch-ResourceIdobtained from the 2^(nd) value of resourceList ‘010’ 3^(rd) PUCCHresource provided by pucch-ResourceId obtained from the 3^(rd) value ofresourceList ‘011’ 4^(th) PUCCH resource provided by pucch-ResourceIdobtained from the 4^(th) value of resourceList ‘100’ 5^(th) PUCCHresource provided by pucch-ResourceId obtained from the 5^(th) value ofresourceList ‘101’ 6^(th) PUCCH resource provided by pucch-ResourceIdobtained from the 6^(th) value of resourceList ‘110’ 7^(th) PUCCHresource provided by pucch-ResourceId obtained from the 7^(th) value ofresourceList ‘111’ 8^(th) PUCCH resource provided by pucch-ResourceIdobtained from the 8^(th) value of resourceList

When the number of PUCCH resources in the selected PUCCH is more than 8,a PUCCH resource may be selected according to the equation below.

$\begin{matrix}{r_{PUCCH} = \begin{Bmatrix}\begin{matrix}{\left\lfloor \frac{\left( {n_{{CCE},p} \cdot \left\lfloor {R_{PUCCH}/8} \right\rfloor} \right)}{\left( N_{{CCE},p} \right)} \right\rfloor +} \\{\Delta{\text{?} \cdot \left\lfloor \frac{R_{PUCCH}}{8} \right\rfloor}}\end{matrix} & \begin{matrix}{{{if}\Delta\text{?}} <} \\{R_{PUCCH}{mod}8}\end{matrix} \\\begin{matrix}{\left\lfloor \frac{\left( {n_{{CCE},p} \cdot \left\lfloor {R_{PUCCH}/8} \right\rfloor} \right)}{\left( N_{{CCE},p} \right)} \right\rfloor +} \\{{\Delta{\text{?} \cdot \left\lfloor \frac{R_{PUCCH}}{8} \right\rfloor}} +} \\{R_{PUCCH}{mod}8}\end{matrix} & \begin{matrix}{{{if}\Delta\text{?}} \geq} \\{R_{PUCCH}{mod}8}\end{matrix}\end{Bmatrix}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}1} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$ ?indicates text missing or illegible when filed

In Equation 1, r_(PUCCH) is an index of the PUCCH resource selected inthe PUCCH resource set, R_(PUCCH) is the number of PUCCH resourcesbelonging to the PUCCH resource set, Δ_(PRI) is a PRI value, N_(CCR,p)is the total number of CCEs of CORESET p to which the received DC1belongs, n_(CCE,p) indicates the first CCE index for the received DCI. Atime point at which the corresponding PUCCH resource is transmitted isafter K₁ slot from the TB transmission corresponding to thecorresponding HARQ-ACK. The candidate for the K₁ value is configured bya higher layer, and in detail, the value is configured in thedl-DataToUL-ACK parameter in PUCCH-Config specified in Table 21. One K₁value of these candidates may be selected by a PDSCH-to-HARQ feedbacktiming indicator in the DCI for scheduling the TB, and this value may bea value specified in Table 5 or Table 6. Meanwhile, the unit of the K₁value may be a slot unit or a subslot unit. Here, a subslot refers to aunit having a length less than that of a slot, and one or a plurality ofsymbols may constitute one subslot.

Next, a case in which two or more PUCCH resources are located in oneslot will be described. The terminal may transmit UGI through one or twoPUCCH resources in one slot or subslot, and when UGI is transmittedthrough two PUCCH resources in one slot/subslot, i) each PUCCH resourcedoes not overlap in units of symbols, and ii) at least one PUCCHresource may be a short PUCCH. Meanwhile, the terminal may not expect totransmit a plurality of PUCCH resources for HARQ-ACK transmission withinone slot.

Next, a PUCCH transmission procedure when two or more PUCCH resourcesoverlap will be described. When two or more PUCCH resources overlap, oneof the overlapping PUCCH resources may be selected or a new PUCCHresource may be selected according to the above-described conditions,that is, a condition that the transmitted PUCCH resource should notoverlap in units of symbols. In addition, a UCI payload transmittedthrough the overlapping PUCCH resource may be all multiplexed andtransmitted, or some UCI payloads may be dropped. First, a case in whichmulti-slot repetition is not configured in a PUCCH resource (case 1) anda case in which multi-slot repetition is configured (case 2) will bedescribed.

In regard to Case 1, the case in which PUCCH resources overlap isdivided into Case 1-1) where two or more PUCCH resources for HARQ-ACKtransmission overlap and Case 1-2) the remaining cases.

A case corresponding to Case 1-1) is shown in FIG. 9 .

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a case in which, when multi-slotrepetition is not configured, a plurality of PUCCH resources forHARQ-ACK transmission for a PDSCH overlap, according to an embodiment ofthe disclosure.

Referring to FIG. 9 , with respect to two or more different PDCCHs 9-10and 9-11 for scheduling PDSCH, when a transmission slot of the PUCCHresources respectively corresponding to PDCCHs is the same, it may beconsidered that the corresponding PUCCH resources overlap each other.That is, when uplink slots corresponding to the K₁ values 9-50 and 9-51indicated by a plurality of PDCCHs are the same, PUCCH resourcescorresponding to the corresponding PDCCHs may be considered asoverlapping each other.

Here, among the PUCCH resources indicated by PRIs 9-40 and 9-41 a PDCCH,only a PUCCH resource 9-31 is selected based on the PRI 9-41corresponding to the PDCCH 9-11 transmitted at a latest time point, andHARQ-ACK information is transmitted on the PUCCH resource, Thus,HARQ-ACK information for PDSCH 9-17 through the selected PUCCH resource9-31, HARQ-ACK information for other PUCCH 9-30 overlapping the PUCCHresource 9-31 may be both encoded by predefined HARQ-ACK codebook andthen transmitted.

Next, a case which corresponds to Case 1-2 and in which a PUCCH resourcefor HARQ-ACK transmission and a PUCCH resource for SR and/or CSItransmission overlap or a plurality of PUCCH resources for SR and/or CSItransmission overlap is described, In this case, when a plurality ofPUCCH resources transmitted on the same slot overlap in more than onesymbols on the time domain, the corresponding PUCCH resources aredefined as overlapping, and whether UCIs in these resources aremultiplexed may be summarized as shown in Table 27.

TABLE 27 PUCCH 1 PUCCH 2 SR HARQ-ACK CSI SR — Case 1-2-1 Always(Multiplex or not multiplex depending on PUCCH format) HARQ-ACK Alwaysmultiplex Case 1-2-2 (HARQ-ACK (Multiplex or not codebook) by higherlayer) CSI Always Case 1-2-2 Case 1-2-2 multiplex

According to Table 27, when the PUCCH resources on which the HARQ-ACK istransmitted overlap each other or when the PUCCHs on which the SR andCSI are transmitted overlap each other, UCIs thereof are alwaysmultiplexed.

On the other hand, when PUCCH resources on which the SR and HARQ-ACK aretransmitted overlap each other, that is, in Case 1-2-1), whether UCI ismultiplexed is divided according to the format of the PUCCH resource asfollows.

SR on PUCCH format 0+HARQ-ACK on PUCCH format 1: SR is dropped and onlyHARQ-ACK is transmitted,

Other cases: Both SR and HARQ-ACK are multiplexed.

In addition, in the other cases corresponding to Case 1-2-2), that is, acase in which PUCCH resources on which HARQ-ACK and CSI are transmittedoverlap each other or a case in which when a plurality of PUCCHresources on which CSI is transmitted overlap each other, whether UCIsthereof are multiplexed may follow the higher layer configuration. Inaddition, configuring whether to multiplex HARQ-ACK and CSI andconfiguring whether to multiplex between a plurality of CSIs may beindependently performed.

For example, whether HARQ-ACK and CSI are multiplexed may be configuredthrough simultaneousHARQ-ACK-CSI parameters for each of PUCCH format 2,3, and 4, and the parameters may all be configured to the same value forthe PUCCH format, When it is configured not to perform multiplexing,through the corresponding parameter, only HARQ-ACK may be transmittedand overlapping CSI may be dropped. In addition, whether multiple CSIsare multiplexed may be configured through a multi-CSI-PUCCH-ResourceListparameter in PUCCH-Config. That is, when themulti-CSI-PUCCH-ResourceList parameter is configured, inter-CSImultiplexing may be performed. Otherwise, only the PUCCH correspondingto the CSI having a high priority according to the inter-CSI prioritymay be transmitted.

When UCI multiplexing is performed as described above, a method ofselecting a PUCCH resource for transmitting a corresponding UCI resourceand a multiplexing method thereof may vary depending on the overlappedUCI information and the format of the PUCCH resource, which can besummarized as shown in Table 28.

TABLE 28 SR HARQ-ACK (format Format CSI PUCCH 1 PUCCH 2 0/1) Format 10/2/3/4 (format 2/3/4) SR — Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 (format 0/1)HARQ-ACK Format 1 Option 1 Option 4 Option 4 Option 5 (grant-based)Option 6 (SPS) Format Option 2 Option 4 Option 4 Option 5 0/2/3/4(grant-based) Option 6 (SPS) CSI Option 3 Option 5 Option 5 Option 7(format 2/3/4) (grant-based) (grant-based) Option 6 (SPS) Option 6 (SPS)

Options of Table 28 are as below.

Option 1: The terminal may differently select PUCCH resources accordingto an SR value of an SR PUCCH resource overlapped with HARQ-ACK PUCCHresource. That is, when an SR value is positive, a PUCCH resource for SRmay be selected, and when an SR value is negative, a PUCCH resource forHARQ-ACK may be selected. HARQ-ACK information may be transmitted on theselected PUCCH resource.

Option 2: The terminal may multiplex HARQ-ACK information and SRinformation about a PUCCH resource for HARQ-ACK transmission andtransmit the same.

Option 3: The terminal may multiplex SR information and CSI on a PUCCHresource for CSI transmission and transmit the same.

Option 4: PUCCH resource transmission for overlapping betweenhARQ-ACKs—a detailed operation thereof is described in case 1-1) above.

Option 5: When a PUCCH resource for HARQ-ACK corresponding to PDSCHscheduled by PUCCH and a PUCCH resource for CSI transmission overlapeach other, and multiplexing between HARQ-ACK and CSI is configured by ahigher layer, the terminal may multiplex HARQ-ACK information and CSIinformation about the PUCCH resource for HARQ-ACK and transmit the same.

Option 6: When a PUCCH resource for HARQ-ACK corresponding tosemi-persistent scheduling (SPS) PDSCH and a PUCCH resource for CSItransmission overlap each other, and multiplexing between HARQ-ACK andCSI is configured by higher layer, the terminal may multiplex HARQ-ACKinformation and CSI information about the PUCCH resource for CSItransmission and transmit the same.

When a PUCCH resource list for multiplexing, that is, amulti-CSI-PUCCH-ResourceList is configured by a higher layer, theterminal may select one resource having a lowest index that can transmitall the multiplexed UCI payloads among the resources in the list, andtransmit the UCI payload. When there is no resource capable oftransmitting all of the multiplexed UCI payloads in the list, theterminal may select a resource having a largest index and then transmitHARQ-ACK and CSI reports as many as possible to the correspondingresource.

Option 7: When a plurality of PUCCH resources for CSI transmissionoverlap each other and multiplexing between a plurality of CSIs isconfigured by a higher layer, the terminal selects one resource having alowest index whereby all of multiplexed UCI payloads may be transmitted,in a PUCCH resource list for CSI multiplexing configured by a higherlayer, that is, the multi-CSI-PUCCH-ResourceList, and transmits a UCIpayload. When there is no resource capable of transmitting all of themultiplexed UCI payloads in the list, the terminal may select a resourcehaving a largest index and then transmit CSI reports as many as possibleto the corresponding resource.

For convenience of explanation, the case in which two PUCCH resourcesoverlap is mainly described, but the above-described method may besimilarly applied to a case in which three or more PUCCH resourcesoverlap. For example, when a PUCCH resource in which SR+HARQ-ACK ismultiplexed and a CSI PUCCH resource overlap, a HARQ-ACK and CSImultiplexing method may be used.

When it is configured not to perform multiplexing between certain UCIs,UCIs with high priorities are transmitted according to the priority inthe order of HARQ-ACK>SR>CSI, and UCIs with low priorities may bedropped. When a plurality of CSI PUCCH resources are configured not toperform multiplexing when they overlap, a PUCCH corresponding to CSIhaving a high priority is transmitted, and PUCCH corresponding to otherCSI may be dropped.

Next, a case in which multi-slot repetition is configured (Case 2) isdivided into a case in which two or more PUCCH resources for HARQ-ACKtransmission are located in the same starting slot (Case 2-1) and theother cases (Case 2-2). Each case is illustrated in FIG. 10 .

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a case in which PUCCH resourcesoverlap when multi-slot repetition is configured, according to anembodiment of the disclosure.

Referring to Case 2-1) of FIG. 10 , when multi-slot repetition isconfigured in a PUCCH resource for HARQ-ACK, that is, when PUCCH #1 isrepeatedly transmitted over multiple slots 10-30 and 10-40 and PUCCH #2is also repeatedly transmitted over multiple slots 10-31 and 10-41, andwhen the start slots of the two PUCCHs indicated by K₁ are the same,then, like Case 1-1), a single PUCCH resource (a PUCCH that istransmitted at a latest time point within one slot), that is, PUCCH #2may be selected, Accordingly, HARQ-ACK information corresponding toPDSCH #1 and PDSCH #2 is all multiplexed through the HARQ-ACK codebookand transmitted on the corresponding PUCCH.

For convenience of explanation, a case in which a plurality of PUCCHsthat are multi-slot-repeated overlap each other is taken as an example,but the same method may also be applied when a multi-slot repeated PUCCHand PUCCHs transmitted on a single slot overlap each other.

Case 2-2) corresponds to a case where an overlap in units of symbolsoccurs between a PUCCH for HARQ-ACK transmission and PUCCH for SR or CSItransmission, or between multiple PUCCHs for SR or CSI transmission,That is, when PUCCH #1 is repeatedly transmitted over multiple slots10-50 and 10-51 and PUCCH #2 is also repeatedly transmitted overmultiple slots 10-60 and 10-61, this corresponds to a case in whichPUCCH #1 and PUCCH #2 overlap each other by one or more symbols in oneslot 10-70.

Between PUCCHs where one or more symbols overlap in the correspondingslot 10-70, the priorities between UCIs in the PUCCHs are compared, andUCI with a high priory is transmitted, and other UCIs are dropped in thecorresponding slot. In this case, the priority between the UCIs followHARQ-AGK>SR>CSI in the highest order.

In addition, when a plurality of CSI PUCCH resources overlap, a PUCCHcorresponding to the high priority CSI is transmitted, and PUCCHscorresponding to other CSI may be dropped in the corresponding slot.PUCCH transmission or drop according to the above-mentioned priority isperformed only in a slot in which the overlap in units of symbols hasoccurred, and is not performed in other slots. That is, the PUCCH inwhich multi-slot repetition is configured may be dropped in the slot inwhich the overlap in units of symbols occurs, but may be transmitted asconfigured in the remaining slots.

For convenience of explanation, a case in which a plurality of PUCCHssubjected to multi-slot repetition are overlapped is exemplified, butthe same method may also be applied when overlapping between themulti-slot repetition PUCCH and the PUCCH transmitted on a single slot.

In addition, overlap between PUCCH and PUSCH transmission is describedbelow. When the terminal transmits PUCCH in a first slot of the repeatedtransmissions of N_(PUCCH) ^(repeat)>1, and transmits the PUSCH in asecond slot, and PUCCH transmission is overlapped with PUSCHtransmission in one or a plurality of slots, and when UCIs aremultiplexed in PUSCH in overlapped slots, the terminal transmits PUCCHand does not transmit PUSCH in slots in which PUCCH and PUSCH overlap.

Next, beam configuration to be applied to PUCCH transmission isdescribed. When the terminal does not have a UE-specific configurationfor PUCCH resource configuration (dedicated PUCCH resourceconfiguration), the PUCCH resource set is provided through higher layersignaling, pucch-ResourceCommon, and in this case, a beam configurationfor PUCCH transmission follows a beam configuration used in PUSCHtransmission scheduled through the random access response (RAR) ULgrant. When the terminal has a UE-specific configuration for PUCCHresource configuration (dedicated PUCCH resource configuration), thebeam configuration for PUCCH transmission is provided throughpucch-spatialRelationInfold, which is higher layer signaling shown inTable 21 above. When the terminal has been configured with onepucch-spatialRelationInfold, the beam configuration for PUCCHtransmission of the terminal is provided through onepucch-spatialRelationInfold. When the terminal has been configured witha plurality of pucch-spatialRelationInfoIDs, the terminal is indicatedto activate one of the plurality of pucch-spatialRelationInfoIDs througha MAC control element (CE). The terminal may be configured with up to 8pucch-spatialRelationInfoIDs through higher layer signaling, and may beindicated to activate one of the pucch-spatialRelationInfoIDs.

When the terminal is indicated to activate anypucch-spatialRelationInfoID through the MAC CE, the terminal appliespucch-spatialRelationInfoID activation through MAC CE, starting from aslot that first appears after 3N_(slot) ^(subframe,μ) slots from a slotin which HARQ-ACK transmission for a PDSCH that transmits MAC CEincluding activation information about pucch-spatialRelationInfoID ismade. In the above, μ denotes a numerology applied to PUCCHtransmission, and N_(slot) ^(subframe,μ) denotes the number of slots persubframe in a given numerology. The higher layer configuration forpucch-spatialRelationInfo may be as shown in Table 29.pucch-spatialRelationInfo may be interchangeably used with PUCCH beaminformation.

TABLE 29 PUCCH-SpatialRelationInfo ::= SEQUENCE { pucch-SpatialRelationInfoId PUCCH-SpatialRelationInfoId,  servingCellId ServCellIndex     OPTIONAL, -- Need S  referenceSignal  CHOICE {  ssb-Index   SSB-Index,   csi-RS-Index   NZP-CSI-RS-RescurceId,   srs  SEQUENCE {    resource SRS-ResourceId,    uplinkBWP    BMP-id   }  }, pucch-PathlossReferenceRS-Id  PUCCH-PathlossReferenceRS-Id, p0-PUCCH-Id  P0-PUCCH-Id,  closedLoopIndex  ENUMERATED { i0, i1 } }PUCCH-SpatialRelationInfoId ::= INTEGER (1..maxNrofSpatialRelationInfos)

According to Table 29, one referenceSignal configuration may exist in aspecific pucch-spatialRelationInfo configuration, and thereferenceSignal may be an ssb-Index indicating a specific SS/PBCH, or acsi-RS-Index indicating a specific CSI-RS, or srs indicating a specificSRS. When a referenceSignal is configured as ssb-Index, the terminal mayconfigure a beam used when receiving the SS/PBCH corresponding to thessb-Index among the SS/PBCHs in the same serving cell, as a beam forPUCCH transmission, or when a servingCellId is provided, the terminalmay configure, as a beam for pucch transmission, a beam that is usedwhen receiving an SS/PBCH corresponding to ssb-Index among SS/PBCHs in acell indicated by the servingCellId. When the referenceSignal isconfigured as csi-RS-Index, the terminal may configure a beam used whenreceiving a CSI-RS corresponding to the csi-RS-Index among the CSI-RSsin the same serving cell, as a beam for PUCCH transmission, or when aservingCellId is provided, the terminal may configure, as a beam forpucch transmission, a beam used when receiving a CSI-RS corresponding tocsi-RS-Index among CSI-RSs in a cell indicated by the servingCellId.When the referenceSignal is configured as srs, the terminal mayconfigure, as a beam for PUCCH transmission, a transmission beam used totransmit an SRS corresponding to a resource index provided as a higherlayer signaling resource in the same serving cell and/or an activateduplink BWP, or when servingCellID and/or uplinkBWP is provided, theterminal may configure, as a beam for PUCCH transmission, a transmissionbeam used when transmitting an SRS corresponding to a resource indexprovided through higher layer signaling resource in a cell and/or uplinkBWP indicated by the servingcellID and/or the uplinkBWP.

One pucch-PathlossReferenceRS-Id configuration may exist within aspecific pucch-spatialRelationInfo configuration.PUCCH-PathlossReferenceRS of Table 30 may be mapped withpucch-PathlossReferenceRS-Id of Table 29, and up to four may beconfigured through pathlossReferenceRSs in higher layer signalingPUCCH-PowerControl of Table 30. When PUCCH-PathlossReferenceRS isconnected to SS/PBCH through referenceSignal of Table 30, ssb-Index isconfigured, and when PUCCH-PathlossReferenceRS is connected to CSI-RS,csi-RS-Index is configured.

TABLE 30 PUCCH-PowerControl ::= SEQUENCE {  deltaF-PUCCH-f0  INTEGER(−16..15) OPTIONAL, -- Need R  deltaF-PUCCH-f1  INTEGER(−16..15) OPTIONAL, -- Need R  deltaF-PUCCH-f2  INTEGER(−16..15) OPTIONAL, -- Need R  deltaF-PUCCH-f3  INTEGER(−16..15) OPTIONAL, -- Need R  deltaF-PUCCH-f4  INTEGER(−16..15) OPTIONAL, -- Need R  p0-Set  SEQUENCE (SIZE(1..maxNrofPUCCH-P0-PerSet)) OF P0-PUCCH OPTIONAL, -- Need M pathlossReferenceRSs  SEQUENCE (Size(1..maxNrofPUCCH-PathlossReferenceRSs)) OFPUCCH-PathlossReferenceRS OPTIONAL, -- Need M twoPUCCH-PC-AdjustmentStates  ENUMERATED {twoStates}  OPTIONAL, -- NeedS  ... } P0-PUCCH ::=  SEQUENCE {  p0-PUCCH-Id   P0-PUCCH-Id, p0-PUCCH-Value   INTEGER (−16..15) } P0-PUCCH-Id ::=  INTEGER (1..8)PUCCH-PathlossReferenceRS ::=    SEQUENCE { pucch-PathlossReferenceRS-Id    PUCCH-PathlossReferenceRS-Id, referenceSignal    CHOICE {   ssb-Index     SSB-Index,   csi-RS-Index    NZP-CSI-RS-ResourceId  } }

Next, an uplink channel estimation method by using sounding referencesignal (SRS) transmission of a terminal is described. A base station mayconfigure at least one SRS configuration for each uplink BWP to transmitconfiguration information for SRS transmission to the terminal, and mayalso configure at least one SRS resource set for each SRS configuration.For example, the base station and the terminal may transmit and receivehigher layer signaling information as below to transmit informationabout an SRS resource set.

srs-ResourceSetId: SRS resource set index

srs-ResourceIdList: a set of SRS resource indexes referenced by a SRSresource set

resourceType: time domain transmission configuration of an SRS resourcereferenced by an SRS resource set, which may be configured as one of‘periodic’, ‘semi-persistent’, and ‘aperiodic’. When the time domaintransmission configuration is configured as ‘periodic’ or‘semi-persistent’, associated CSI-RS information may be providedaccording to a usage of the SRS resource set. When the time domaintransmission configuration is configured as ‘aperiodic’, an aperiodicSRS resource trigger list and slot offset information may be provided,and associated CSI-RS information may be provided according to a usageof the SRS resource set.

usage: configuration for a usage of an SRS resource referenced by an SRSresource set, which may be configured as one of ‘beamManagement’,‘codebook’, ‘nonCodebook’, and ‘antennaSwitching’,

alpha, p0, pathlossReferenceRS, srs-PowerControlAdjustmentStates:parameter configuration for transmission power control of an SRSresource referenced by an SRS resource set is provided.

A terminal may identify that an SRS resource included in a set of SRSresource indexes referenced by an SRS resource set follows informationconfigured in the SRS resource set.

Also, the base station and the terminal may transmit and receive higherlayer signaling information to transmit individual configurationinformation of the SRS resource. For example, the individualconfiguration information of the SRS resource may include time-frequencydomain mapping information in a slot of the SRS resource, and thetime-frequency domain mapping information may include information aboutintra-slot or inter-slot frequency hopping of the SRS resource, Also,the individual configuration information of the SRS resource may includea time domain transmission configuration of the SRS resource, and may beconfigured as one of ‘periodic’, ‘semi-persistent’, and ‘aperiodic’.Accordingly, it may be possible to limit to have a time domaintransmission configuration such as an SRS resource set including the SRSresource. When the time domain transmission configuration of the SRSresource is configured as ‘periodic’ or ‘semi-persistent’, an SRSresource transmission period and a slot offset (e.g.,periodicityAndOffset) may be additionally included in the time domaintransmission configuration.

The base station may activate, deactivate, or trigger SRS transmissionto the terminal through higher layer signaling including RRC signalingor MAC CE signaling, or L1 signaling (e.g., DCI). For example, the basestation may activate or deactivate periodic SRS transmission throughhigher layer signaling to the terminal, The base station may indicate toactivate an SRS resource set in which the resourceType is configured asperiodic, through higher layer signaling, and the terminal may transmitan SRS resource referenced by the activated SRS resource set.Time-frequency axis resource mapping in a slot of the transmitted SRSresource follows resource mapping information configured in the SRSresource, and the slot mapping including the transmission period and theslot offset follows the periodicityAndOffset configured in the SRSresource, In addition, a spatial domain transmission filter applied tothe SRS resource to be transmitted may refer to spatial relation infoconfigured in the SRS resource, or may refer to associated CSI-RSinformation configured in the SRS resource set including the SRSresource. The terminal may transmit the SRS resource in the uplink BWPactivated for the periodic SRS resource activated through higher layersignaling.

For example, the base station may activate or deactivate semi-persistentSRS transmission through higher layer signaling, to the terminal. Thebase station may indicate to activate the SRS resource set through MACCE signaling, and the terminal may transmit the SRS resource referencedby the activated SRS resource set. The SRS resource set activatedthrough MAC CE signaling may be limited to the SRS resource set in whichthe resourceType is configured as semi-persistent. Time-frequency axisresource mapping in a slot of the transmitted SRS resource follows theresource mapping information configured in the SRS resource, and theslot mapping including the transmission period and the slot offsetfollows the periodicityAndOffset configured in the SRS resource. Inaddition, a spatial domain transmission filter applied to the SRSresource to be transmitted may refer to spatial relation info configuredin the SRS resource, or may refer to associated CSI-RS informationconfigured in the SRS resource set including the SRS resource. Whenspatial relation info is configured in the SRS resource, the spatialrelation info may not be followed, but the spatial domain transmissionfilter may be determined by referring to configuration information forspatial relation info transmitted through MAC CE signaling thatactivates semi-persistent SRS transmission. The terminal may transmitthe SRS resource in the uplink BWP activated for the semi-persistent SRSresource activated through higher layer signaling.

For example, the base station may trigger aperiodic SRS transmission tothe terminal through DCI. The base station may indicate one of aperiodicSRS resource triggers (aperiodicSRS-ResourceTrigger) through an SRSrequest field of DCI. The terminal may understand that an SRS resourceset including an aperiodic SRS resource trigger indicated through DCI inthe aperiodic SRS resource trigger list is triggered among theconfiguration information of the SRS resource set. The terminal maytransmit the SRS resource referenced by the triggered SRS resource set.The time-frequency axis resource mapping in the slot of the SRS resourceto be transmitted follows the resource mapping information set in theSRS resource. In addition, slot mapping of the SRS resource to betransmitted may be determined through the slot offset between the PDCCHincluding DCI and the SRS resource, which may refer to value(s) includedin the slot offset set configured in the SRS resource set, In detail, asa slot offset between the PDCCH including DCI and the SRS resource, avalue indicated in a time domain resource allocation field of DCI amongthe offset value(s) included in the slot offset set configured in theSRS resource set may be applied. In addition, a spatial domaintransmission filter applied to the SRS resource to be transmitted mayrefer to spatial relation info configured in the SRS resource, or mayrefer to associated CSI-RS information configured in the SRS resourceset including the SRS resource. The terminal may transmit the SRSresource in the uplink BWP activated for the aperiodic SRS resourcetriggered through DCI.

When the base station triggers aperiodic SRS transmission to theterminal through DCI, in order for the terminal to transmit SRS byapplying the configuration information for the SRS resource, a minimumtime interval between the PDCCH including the DC1 triggering theaperiodic SRS transmission and the transmitted SRS may be required. Atime interval for SRS transmission of the terminal may be defined as thenumber of symbols between a last symbol of the PDCCH including DCItriggering aperiodic SRS transmission and a first symbol, with which afirst transmitted SRS resource among SRS resource(s) is mapped. Theminimum time interval may be determined with reference to PUSCHpreparation procedure time required for the terminal to prepare forPUSCH transmission, In addition, the minimum time interval may havedifferent values depending on the usage of the SRS resource setincluding the transmitted SRS resource. For example, the minimum timeinterval may be determined as an N2 symbol defined in consideration ofthe terminal processing capability according to the capability of theterminal with reference to the PUSCH preparation procedure time of theterminal, In addition, in consideration of the usage of the SRS resourceset including the transmitted SRS resource, when the usage of the SRSresource set is configured to ‘codebook’ or ‘antennaSwitching’, theminimum time interval is configured to N2 symbols, and when the usage ofthe SRS resource set is configured to ‘nonCodebook’ or ‘beamManagement’,the minimum time interval may be configured to N2+14 symbols. Theterminal may transmit an aperiodic SRS when the time interval foraperiodic SRS transmission is greater than or equal to the minimum timeinterval, and when the time interval for aperiodic SRS transmission isless than the minimum time interval, the terminal may ignore DCItriggering aperiodic SRS.

TABLE 31 SMS-Resource ::= SEQUENCE {  scs-ResourceId  SRS-ResourceId, nrofSRS-Parts  ENUMERATED (port1, ports2, ports4),  pres-PortIndex ENUMERATED (n0, n1 ) OPTIONAL, -- Need R  transmissionComb  CHOICE {  n2   SEQUENCE {    combOffset-n2    INTEGER (0..1),    cyclicShift-n2   INTEGER (0..7)   },   n4   SEQUENCE {    combOffset-n4    INTEGER(0..3),    cyclicShift-n4    INTEGER (0..1)   }  },  resourceMapping SEQUENCE {   startPosition   INTEGER (0..8),   areafSymbols 

  ENUMERATED (n1, n2, n4),   repetitionFactor   ENUMERATED (n1, n2, n4), },  freqDomainPosition  INTEGER (0..87),  freqDomainShift  INTEGER(0..268),  freqHopping  SEQUENCE {   c-SBS   INTEGER (0..68),   b-SBS  INTEGER (0..8),   b-hop   INTEGER (0..3)  },  groupOfSequenceHopping ENUMERATED ( neither, groupHopping, sequenceHopping ),  resourceType CHOICE {   aperiodic   SEQUENCE {    ...   },   semi-persistent  SEQUENCE {    periodicityAndOffset-sp     SRS-PeriodicityAndOffset,   ...   },   periodic   SEQUENCE {    periodicityAndOffset-sp    SRS-PeriodicityAndOffset,    ...   }  },  sequenceId  INTEGER(0..1023),  spatialRelationInfo  SRS-SpatialRelationInfo OPTIONAL, --Need R  ... }

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spatialRelationInfo configuration information of Table 31 is designed torefer to one reference signal and apply beam information of thereference signal to a beam used in the corresponding SRS transmission.For example, configuration of spatialRelationInfro may includeinformation as shown in Table 32.

TABLE 32 SRS-SpatialRelationInfo ::=  SEQUENCE {  servingCellId  ServCellIndex  OPTIONAL, -- Need S  referenceSignal   CHOICE {  ssb-Index    SSB-Index,   csi-RS-Index    NZP-CSI-RS-RescorceId,   srs   SEQUENCE {    resourceId     SBS-ResourceId,    uplinkBWP     BWP-Id  }  } }

Referring to spatialRelationInfo configuration, an SS/PBCH block index,CSI-RS index, or SRS index may be configured as an index of a referencesignal to be referenced in order to use beam information of a specificreference signal. A higher layer signaling referenceSignal isconfiguration information indicating beam information of which referencesignal is to be referenced for the corresponding SRS transmission,ssb-Index is an index of an SS/PBCH block, csi-RS-Index is an index ofthe CSI-RS, and srs is an index of the SRS. When a value of the higherlayer signaling referenceSignal is configured to ‘ssb-Index’, theterminal may apply a reception beam used when receiving an SS/PBCH blockcorresponding to an ssb-Index as a transmission beam of thecorresponding SRS transmission. When a value of the higher layersignaling referenceSignal is configured to ‘csi-RS-Index’, the terminalmay apply a reception beam used when receiving a CSI-RS corresponding toa csi-RS-Index as a transmission beam of the corresponding SRStransmission. When a value of the higher layer signaling referenceSignalis configured to ‘srs’, the terminal may apply a transmission beam usedwhen transmitting an SRS corresponding to srs as a transmission beam ofthe corresponding SRS transmission.

Next, a scheduling scheme of PUSCH transmission is described. PUSCHtransmission may be dynamically scheduled by a UL grant in DCI or may beoperated by configured grant Type 1 or Type 2. Dynamic schedulingindication for PUSCH transmission is possible in DCI format or 0_1.

Configured grant Type 1 PUSCH transmission may not involve reception ofUL grant in DCI, but may be semi-statically configured through receptionof configuredGrantConfig including the rrc-ConfiguredUplinkGrant ofTable 33 through higher layer signaling. Configured grant Type 2 PUSCHtransmission may be semi-persistently scheduled by the UL grant in DCIafter receiving configuredGrantConfig that does not include therrc-ConfiguredUplinkGrant of Table 33 through higher layer signaling.When PUSCH transmission is operated by a configured grant, parametersapplied to PUSCH transmission are applied through configuredGrantConfig,which is higher layer signaling of Table 33, except fordataScramblingIdentityPUSCH, txConfig, codebookSubset, maxRank, scalingof UCI-OnPUSCH provided by pusch-Config of Table 34. When the terminalis provided with transformPrecoder in configuredGrantConfig, which ishigher layer signaling of Table 33, the terminal applies tp-pi2BPSK inpunch-Config of Table 34 for PUSCH transmission operated by theconfigured grant.

TABLE 33 Configuration 

 Config ::= SEQUENCE {  frequencyHopping  ENUMERATED (intraSlot,interSlot) OPTIONAL, -- Need S   

 -DMRS-Configuration  DMRS-UplinkConfig,   

 -Table  ENUMERATED (que256, que64LowSE) OPTIONAL, -- Need S   

   ENUMERATED (que256, que64LowSE) OPTIONAL, -- Need S  

  -PUSCH  SortingRefrain (  

 PUSCH ) OPTIONAL, -- Need M  resourceAllocation  ENUMERATED (researchfacet 

 ) resourceAllocationType1, dynamicSwitch },  rbg-Size  ENUMERATED(config) OPTIONAL, -- Need S  powerControl 

 ToUse  ENUMERATED ( 

 )  s0-PUSCH- 

   P0-PUSCH- 

    

   ENUMERATED (enabled, disabled) OPTIONAL, -- Need S   

   INTEGER(1..10),   

   ENUMERATED (n1, n2, n4, n8),   

   ENUMERATED (s1-0231, n2-0303, n2-0000) OPTIONAL, -- Need R periodicity  ENUMERATED {    sym2, sym7, sym1x14, sym3 x14, sym4x14, 

  sym5x14, sym8x14, sym10x14, sym18x14, sym20x14, 

     sym8x14, sym4x14, sym4x14, 

  sym80x14, sym120x14, sym160x14, sym200x14, sym320x14, sym612x14, 

     sym640x14, sym1024x14, sym1280x14, 

  sym2560x14, sym3180x14,  

     sym6, sym1x12, sym8x18, sym4x12, 

  sym5x11, sym8x12, sym10x12, sym18x12, sym20x12, sym32x12, 

     sym40x12, sym84x12, sym85x12, 

  sym130x12, sym160x12, sym356x12, sym320x12, sym614x12, sym640x12, 

     sym1280x12, sym3560x12, 

   },  configuredCredit 

    INTEGER (1..84) OPTIONAL, -- Need R  rcc-Configuration 

    SEQUENCE {   timeDomainOffset    INTEGER (0..0129),  timeDomainAllocation    INTEGER (0..15),   frequency 

 Allocation    Bit String (SIZE( 

 )),   gotannaPort      INTEGER (0.. 

 )   crs-ResourceIndication    INTEGER (0..3) OPTIONAL, -- Need R    

     INTEGER (0..83)   crc-ResourceIndication    INTEGER (0..35)OPTIONAL, -- Need R    

     INTEGER (0..31),   frequencyHoppingOffset    INTEGER (1..  

 PhysicalResource     OPTIONAL, -- Need B   pathloss 

 index    INTEGER (0m naxBeedPUSCS-PathlossReference 

    ...  } OPTIONAL, -- Need S  ... }

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Next, a PUSCH transmission method is described. A DBMS antenna port forPUSCH transmission is the same as an antenna port for SRS transmission.PUSCH transmission may use a codebook-based transmission method and anon-codebook-based transmission method, respectively, depending onwhether a value of txConfig in pusch-Config of Table 34, which is higherlayer signaling, is ‘codebook’ or ‘nonCodebook’.

As described above, PUSCH transmission may be dynamically scheduledthrough DCI format 0_0 or 0_1, and may be semi-statically configured bya configured grant. When the terminal is indicated to schedule PUSCHtransmission through DCI format 0_0, the terminal may perform beamconfiguration for PUSCH transmission, by usingpucch-spatialRelationInfoID corresponding to a UE-specific PUCCHresource corresponding to the minimum ID in the uplink BWP activated inthe serving cell, and the PUSCH transmission here is based on a singleantenna port. The terminal does not expect scheduling of PUSCHtransmission through DCI format 0_0 within the BWP in which the PUCCHresource including the punch-spatialRelationInfo is not configured. Whenthe terminal has not configured txConfig in pusch-Config of Table 34,the terminal does not expect to be scheduled in DCI format 0_1.

TABLE 34 PUSCH-Config ::= SEQUENCE {  dataScramblingIdentityPUSCH INTEGER (0..1023) OPTIONAL, -- Need S  txConfig  ENUMERATED (codebook,nonCodebook) OPTIONAL, -- Need S  dars-UplinkForPUSCH-MappingTypeA SetupRelease ( DMRS-UplinkConfig ) OPTIONAL, -- Need M dars-UplinkForPUSCH-MappingTypeB  SetupRelease ( DMRS-UplinkConfig )OPTIONAL, -- Need M  pusch-PowerControl  PUSCH-PowerControl OPTIONAL, --Need M  frequencyHopping  ENUMERATED (IntraSlot, InterSlot) OPTIONAL, --Need S  frequencyHoppingOffsetLists  SEQUENCE (SIZE (1..4)) OF INTEGER(1.. maxNrofPhysicalResourceBlocks-1) OPTIONAL, -- Need M resourceAllocation  ENUMERATED ( resources)(locationType0,resourceAllocationType1, DomanSwitch},  pusch-TimeDomainAllocationList SetupRelease ( PUSCH-TimeDomainResourceAllocationList {    OPTIONAL, --Need M  pusch-AggregationFactor  ENUMERATED ( n2, n4, n8 ) OPTIONAL, --Need S  see-Table 

 ENUMERATED (qam256, qam64LowSE) OPTIONAL, -- Need S scs-TableTransfocalPrecoder  ENUMERATED (qam256, qam64LowSE)OPTIONAL, -- Need S  transformPrecoder  ENUMERATED (enabled, disabled)OPTIONAL, -- Need S  codebookSubset  ENUMERATED(fullyAndPartialAndNonCoherent, partialAndNonCoherent, nonCoherent)OPTIONAL, -- Cond codebookflexed 

 maxRank 

 INTEGER (1..4) OPTIONAL, -- Cond codebookflexed  rbg-Size  ENUMERATED (config8) OPTIONAL, -- Need S  ani-OnPUSCH 

 SetupRelease ( UCI-OnPUSCH) OPTIONAL, -- Need M  tp-12BPSK 

 ENUMERATED (enabled) OPTIONAL, -- Need S  ... }

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Next, codebook-based PUSCH transmission is described. Codebook-basedPUSCH transmission may be dynamically scheduled through DCI format 0_0or 0_1, and may operate semi-statically by a configured grant. When thecodebook-based PUSCH is dynamically scheduled by DCI format 0_1 or isconfigured semi-statically by a configured grant, the terminaldetermines a precoder for PUSCH transmission based on an SRS ResourceIndicator (SRI), a Transmission Precoding Matrix Indicator (TPMI), and atransmission rank (number of PUSCH transmission layers).

Here, the SRI may be given through a field ‘SRS resource indicator’ inDCI or may be configured through srs-ResourceIndicator, which is higherlayer signaling. The terminal is configured with at least one SRSresource when transmitting a codebook-based PUSCH, and may be configuredwith up to two. When the terminal is provided with an SRI through DCI,the SRS resource indicated by the corresponding SRI refers to an SRSresource corresponding to the SRI among SRS resources transmitted beforethe PDCCH including the corresponding SRI. In addition, TPMI and atransmission rank may be given through a field ‘preceding informationand number of layers’ in DCI or may be configured throughprecodingAndNumberOfLayers, which is higher layer signaling. TPMI isused to indicate a precoder applied to PUSCH transmission. When theterminal is configured with one SRS resource, the TPMI is used toindicate a precoder to be applied in the configured one SRS resource.When the terminal is configured with a plurality of SRS resources, theTPMI is used to indicate a precoder to be applied in an SRS resourceindicated through the SRI.

A precoder to be used for PUSCH transmission is selected from an uplinkcodebook having the same number of antenna ports as a value ofnrofSRS-Ports in SRS-Config, which is higher layer signaling. In thecodebook-based PUSCH transmission, the terminal determines a codebooksubset based on the TPMI and codebookSubset in pusch-Config, which ishigher layer signaling. CodebookSubset in pusch-Config, which is higherlayer signaling, may be configured to one of‘fullyAndPartialAndNonCoherent’, ‘partialAndNonCoherent’, or‘nonCoherent’ based on the UE capability reported by the terminal to thebase station. When the terminal reports ‘partialAndNonCoherent’ as UEcapability, the terminal does not expect that a value of codebookSubset,which is higher level signaling, is configured to‘fullyAndPartialAndNonCoherent’. In addition, when the terminal reports‘nonCoherent’ as UE capability, the terminal does not expect that thevalue of codebookSubset, which is higher layer signaling, is configuredto ‘fullyAndPartialAndNonCoherent’ or ‘partialAndNonCoherent’. WhennrofSRS-Ports in SRS-ResourceSet, which is higher layer signaling,points to two SRS antenna ports, the terminal does not expect that thevalue of codebookSubset, which is higher layer signaling, is configuredto ‘partialAndNonCoherent’.

The terminal may be configured with one SRS resource set in which avalue of usage in SRS-ResourceSet, which higher layer signaling, isconfigured to ‘codebook’, and one SRS resource in the corresponding SRSresource set may be indicated through SRI. When several SRS resourcesare configured in the SRS resource set in which the value of usage inSRS-ResourceSet, which is higher layer signaling, is configured to‘codebook’, the terminal expects the same value of nrofSRS-Ports in theSRS-Resource, which is higher layer signaling, to be configured for allSRS resources,

The terminal transmits to the base station one or a plurality of SRSresources included in the SRS resource set in which the value of usageis configured to ‘codebook’ according to higher level signaling, and thebase station selects one of the SRS resources transmitted by theterminal and indicates such that the terminal may perform PUSCHtransmission by using the transmission beam information of thecorresponding SRS resource. Here, in the codebook-based PUSCHtransmission, SRI is used as information for selecting an index of oneSRS resource and is included in DCI. Additionally, the base stationincludes, in the DCI, information indicating the TPMI and rank to beused by the terminal for PUSCH transmission. By using the SRS resourceindicated by the SRI, the terminal performs PUSCH transmission byapplying the rank indicated based on the transmission beam of the SRSresource and the precoder indicated by the TPMI.

Next, non-codebook-based PUSCH transmission is described.Non-codebook-based PUSCH transmission may be dynamically scheduledthrough DCI format 0_0 or 0_1, and may operate semi-statically by aconfigured grant. When at least one SRS resource is configured in theSRS resource set in which the value of usage in the SRS-ResourceSet,which is higher layer signaling, is configured to ‘nonCodebook’, theterminal may be scheduled with a non-codebook-based PUSCH transmissionthrough DCI format 0_1.

For the SRS resource set in which the value of usage in theSRS-ResourceSet, which is higher layer signaling, is configured to‘nonCodebook’, the terminal may be configured with one connected NZPCSI-RS resource (non-zero power CSI-RS). The terminal may performcalculation of a precoder for SRS transmission by measuring the NZPCSI-RS resource connected to the SRS resource set. When a differencebetween a last received symbol of an aperiodic NZP CSI-RS resourceconnected to the SRS resource set and a first symbol of an aperiodic SRStransmission in the terminal is less than 42 symbols, the terminal doesnot expect that information about the precoder for SRS transmission isupdated.

When a value of resourceType in the SRS-ResourceSet, which is higherlayer signaling, is configured as ‘aperiodic’, the connected NZP CSI-RSis indicated by an SRS request, which is a field in DCI format 0_1 or1_1. Here, when the connected NZP CSI-RS resource is an aperiodic NZPCSI-RS resource, it may indicate that there is a connected NZP CSI-RSfor a case in which a value of a field ‘SRS request’ in DCI format 0_1or 1_1 is not ‘00’. Here, the DCI should not indicate cross carrier orcross BWP scheduling. In addition, when a value of the SRS requestindicates the existence of an NZP CSI-RS, the corresponding NZP CSI-RSis located in a slot in which a PDCCH including the SRS request field istransmitted. In this case, TCI states configured in a scheduledsubcarrier are not configured to QCL-TypeD.

When a periodic or semi-persistent SRS resource set is configured, theconnected NZP CSI-RS may be indicated through associatedCSI-RS in theSRS-ResourceSet, which is higher layer signaling. For non-codebook-basedtransmission, the terminal does not expect that spatialRelationInfo,which is higher layer signaling for SRS resource, and associatedCSI-RSin SRS-ResourceSet, which is higher layer signaling, are configuredtogether.

When the terminal is configured with a plurality of SRS resources, theterminal may determine a precoder to be applied to PUSCH transmissionand a transmission rank, based on the SRI indicated by the base station.Here, the SRI may be indicated through a field ‘SRS resource indicator’in DCI or may be configured through srs-ResourceIndicator, which ishigher layer signaling. Like in the above-described codebook-based PUSCHtransmission, when the terminal is provided with SRI through DCI, theSRS resource indicated by the SRI refers to an SRS resourcecorresponding to the SRI among the SRS resource transmitted before thePDCCH including the SRI. The terminal may use one or a plurality of SRSresources for SRS transmission, and the maximum number of SRS resourcesand the minimum number of SRS resources that may be simultaneouslytransmitted on the same symbol in one SRS resource set are determined bythe UE capability reported by the terminal to the base station. Here,the SRS resources simultaneously transmitted by the terminal occupy thesame RB. The terminal configures one SRS port for each SRS resource.Only one SRS resource set in which a value of usage in theSRS-ResourceSet, which is higher layer signaling, is configured to‘nonCodebook’ may be configured, and up to four SRS resources fornon-codebook-based PUSCH transmission may be configured.

The base station transmits one NZP-CSI-RS connected to the SRS resourceset to the terminal, and the terminal calculates, based on a measurementresult obtained when receiving the NZP-CSI-RS, a precoder to be usedwhen transmitting one or a plurality of SRS resources in thecorresponding SRS resource set. The terminal applies the calculatedprecoder when transmitting, to the base station, one or a plurality ofSRS resources in the SRS resource set in which the usage is configuredto ‘nonCodebook’, and the base station selects one or a plurality of SRSresources among the received one or a plurality of SRS resources, Here,in the non-codebook-based PUSCH transmission, the SRI indicates an indexcapable of expressing one or a combination of a plurality of SRSresources, and the SRI is included in the DCI. Here, the number of SRSresources indicated by the SRI transmitted by the base station may bethe number of transmission layers of the PUSCH, and the terminaltransmits a PUSCH by applying a precoder applied to the SRS resourcetransmission to each layer.

Next, a PUSCH preparation procedure time is described. When the basestation schedules the terminal to transmit the PUSCH using DCI format0_0 or DCI format 0_1, the terminal may require a PUSCH preparationprocedure time for transmitting a PUSCH by applying a transmissionmethod indicated through DCI (a transmission preceding method of an SRSresource, the number of transmission layers, a spatial domaintransmission filter). In an NR system, the PUSCH preparation proceduretime is defined in consideration of the above. The PUSCH preparationprocedure time of the terminal may be according to Equation 2 below.

T _(proc,2)=max((N ₂ +d _(2,1))(2048+144)·K2^(−μ) ·T _(c) ,d _(2,2))  [Equation 2]

In T_(proc,2) described above, each variable may have the followingmeaning.

N2: the number of symbols determined according to the UE processingcapability 1 or 2 and the numerology μ according to the capability ofthe terminal. When reported as UE processing capability 1 according tothe capability report of the terminal, N₂ may have the values of [Table35], and when reported as UE processing capability 2, and it isconfigured through higher layer signaling that UE processing capability2 may be used, N₂ may have the values of [Table 36].

TABLE 35 PUSCH preparation time N₂ μ [symbols] 0 10 1 12 2 23 3 36

TABLE 36 PUSCH preparation time N₂ μ [symbols] 0 5 1 5.5 2 11 forfrequency range 1

d2,1: the number of symbols set as 0 when a first symbol of PUSCH isconfigured with only DM-RSs, and when not, the numbers of symbols set as1.

K: 64

μ: among μ_(DL) or μ_(UL), a value at which T_(proc,2) is greater isfollowed, μ_(DL) denotes numerology of downlink at which a PDCCHincluding DCI for scheduling a PUSCH is transmitted, and μ_(UL) denotesnumerology of uplink at which a PUSCH is transmitted.

T_(c) denotes a value below: T_(c): 1/(Δf_(max)·N_(f)), Δf_(max)=480·10³Hz, N_(f)=4096

d_(2,2): When the DCI scheduling PUSCH indicates BWP switching, d2,2follows the BWP switching time, and otherwise, d2,2 has a value of 0.

Considering the time domain resource mapping information of the PUSCHscheduled through DCI and the timing advance (TA) effect between uplinkand downlink, when, from the last symbol of the PDCCH including the DCIscheduled for the PUSCH and after T_(proc,2), the first symbol of thePUSCH starts earlier than the first uplink symbol where the CP starts,the base station and the terminal determine that the PUSCH preparationprocedure time is not sufficient. When not, the base station and theterminal determine that the PUSCH preparation procedure time issufficient. The terminal transmits a PUSCH only when the PUSCHpreparation procedure time is sufficient, and when the PUSCH preparationprocedure time is insufficient, the terminal may ignore the DCI forscheduling the PUSCH.

Next, repeated PUSCH transmission is described. When the terminal isscheduled for PUSCH transmission in DCI format 0_1 in the PDCCHincluding the CRC scrambled by C-RNTI, MCS-C-RNT1, or CS-RNT1, and theterminal is configured with higher layer signalingpusch-AgreegationFactor, the same symbol allocation is applied inconsecutive slots as many as punch-AgreegationFactor, and PUSCHtransmission is limited to single rank transmission. For example, theterminal should repeat the same TB in consecutive slots as many aspunch-AgreegationFactor, and apply the same symbol allocation to eachslot. Table 37 shows the redundancy version applied to repeated PUSCHtransmissions for each slot. When the terminal is scheduled for repeatedPUSCH transmission in DCI format 0_1 in a plurality of slots, and atleast one symbol among slots, in which PUSCH repeated transmission isperformed according to information of higher layer signalingtdd-UL-DL-ConfigurationCommon or tdd-UL-DL-ConfigurationDedicated, isindicated as a downlink symbol, the terminal does not perform PUSCHtransmission in a slot in which the corresponding symbol is located.

TABLE 37 rv_(id) indicated by the DCI rv_(id) to be applied to n^(th)transmission occasion scheduling the n mod n mod n mod n mod PUSCH 4 = 04 = 1 4 = 2 4 = 3 0 0 2 3 1 2 2 3 1 0 3 3 1 0 2 1 1 0 2 3

In addition, with respect to repeated PUSCH transmission, in NR Release16, additional methods as below may be defined for UL grant-based PUSCHtransmission and configured grant-based PUSCH transmission beyond theslot boundary.

Scheme 1 (mini-slot level repetition): Through one UL grant, two or morePUSCH repeated transmissions are scheduled within one slot or beyond theboundary of consecutive slots. Also, for Scheme 1, time domain resourceallocation information in DCI indicates a resource of a first repeatedtransmission. In addition, time domain resource information of the firstrepeated transmission and time domain resource information of theremaining repeated transmissions may be determined according to anuplink or downlink direction determined for each symbol of each slot.Each repeated transmission occupies consecutive symbols.

Scheme 2 (multi-segment transmission): Two or more repeated PUSCHtransmissions are scheduled in consecutive slots through one UL grant.Here, one transmission is designated for each slot, and different startpoints or repetition lengths may be different for each transmission.Also, in Scheme 2, time domain resource allocation information in DCIindicates a start point and a repetition length of all repeatedtransmissions. In addition, in the case of performing repeatedtransmission in a single slot through Scheme 2, when multiple bundles ofconsecutive uplink symbols exist in the corresponding slot, eachrepeated transmission is performed for each bundle of uplink symbols.When a bundle of consecutive uplink symbols is uniquely present in thecorresponding slot, one PUSCH repeated transmission is performedaccording to the scheme of NR Release 15.

Scheme 3: Two or more repeated PUSCH transmissions are scheduled inconsecutive slots through two or more UL grants. Here, one transmissionis designated for each slot, and the n-th UL grant may be receivedbefore PUSCH transmission scheduled with the n-1th UL grant ends.

Scheme 4: Through one UL grant or one configured grant, one or severalrepeated PUSCH transmissions may be supported in a single slot, or twoor more repeated PUSCH transmissions may be supported across theboundary of consecutive slots. The number of repetitions indicated bythe base station to the terminal is only a nominal value, and the numberof repeated PUSCH transmissions actually performed by the terminal maybe more than or less than a nominal number of repetitions. The timedomain resource allocation information in DCI or in the configured grantrefers to a resource of the first repeated transmission indicated by thebase station. Time domain resource information of the remaining repeatedtransmissions may be determined by referring to resource information ofat least the first repeated transmission and the uplink or downlinkdirection of the symbols. When the time domain resource information ofthe repeated transmission indicated by the base station spans the slotboundary or includes an uplink/downlink switching point, the repeatedtransmission may be divided into a plurality of repeated transmissions.Here, one repeated transmission may be included for each uplink periodin one slot.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating radio protocol structures of a basestation and a terminal when performing single cell, carrier aggregation,and dual connectivity, according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

Referring to FIG. 11 , a radio protocol of a next-generation mobilecommunication system in each of a terminal and an NR base station iscomposed of NR Service Data Adaptation Protocol (SDAP) S25 or S70, NRPacket Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) S30 or S65, NR Radio LinkControl (RLC) S35 or S60, and NR MAC Medium Access Control (MAC) S40 orS55.

The major functions of the NR SDAP S25 or S70 may include some offunctions below.

Transfer of user plane data

Mapping between a QoS flow and a DRB for both DL and UL

Function of marking QoS flow ID in UL and DL (marking QoS flow ID inboth DL and UL packets)

Reflective QoS flow to DRB mapping for the UL SOAP PDUs

With respect to the SDAP layer entity, the terminal may be configuredvia a RRC message, with information about whether to use a header of theSDAP layer entity or whether to use the function of the SDAP layerentity for each PDCP layer entity, for each bearer, or for each logicalchannel, and when the SDAP header is configured, a NAS QoS reflectiveconfiguration 1-bit indicator and an AS QoS reflective configuration1-bit indicator of the SDAP header may be used to indicate the terminalto update or reconfigure mapping information between a QoS flow and adata bearer for uplink and downlink. The SDAP header may include QoSflow ID information indicating QoS. The QoS information may be used asdata processing priority information, scheduling information, or thelike for supporting a seamless service.

The major functions of the NR PDCP layer S30 or S65 may include some offunctions below,

Header compression and decompression function (Header compression anddecompression: ROHC only)

Transfer of user data

In-sequence delivery of upper layer PDUs

Out-of-sequence delivery of upper layer PDUs

Reordering function (PDCP PDU reordering for reception)

Duplicate detection function (Duplicate detection of lower layer SDUs)

Retransmission function (Retransmission of PDCP SDUs)

Ciphering and deciphering function

Timer-based SDU discard in uplink

The reordering of the NR PDCP entity refers to a function of reorderingPDCP PDUs received from a lower layer in order based on a PDCP sequencenumber (SN), and may include a function of delivering data to a higherlayer in the reordering order or a function of immediately deliveringthe data to the higher layer without considering an order, a function ofrecording missing PDCP PDUs by reordering the PDCP PDUs, a function ofreporting a state of the missing PDCP PDUs to a transmitting side, and afunction of requesting retransmission of the missing PDCP PDUs.

The major functions of the NR RLC layer S35 or S60 may include some offunctions below.

Data transfer function (Transfer of upper layer PDUs)

In-sequence delivery of upper layer PDUs

Out-of-sequence delivery of upper layer PDUs

ARQ function (Error correction through ARQ)

Concatenation, segmentation, and reassembly function (Concatenation,segmentation and reassembly of RLC SDUs)

Re-segmentation function (Re-segmentation of RLC data PDUs)

Reordering function (Reordering of RLC data PDUs)

Duplicate detection function

Error detection function (Protocol error detection)

RLC SDU discard function

RLC re-establishment function

The in-sequence delivery function of the NR RLC entity S35 or S60 refersto a function of delivering RLC SDUs received from a lower layer to ahigher layer in order. The in-sequence delivery function of the NR RLCentity may include a function of reassembling the RLC SDUs anddelivering the reassembled RLC SDU when a plurality of RLC SDUssegmented from one RLC SDU are received, a function of reorderingreceived RLC PDUs on an RLC SN or PDCP SN basis, a function of recordingmissing RLC PDUs by reordering the received RLC PDUs, a function ofreporting status information of the missing RLC PDUs to a transmittingside, a function of requesting retransmission of the missing RLC PDUs, afunction of delivering only RLC SDUs prior to a missing RLC SDU, to ahigher layer in order when the missing RLC SDU exists, or a function ofdelivering all RLC SDUs received before a timer starts, to a higherlayer in order although a missing RLC SDU exists when a certain timerexpires, or a function of delivering only RLC SDUs prior to a missingRLC SDU, to a higher layer in order even when a missing RLC SDU exists,or a function of delivering all RLC SDUs received up to a current time,to a higher layer in order, even when a missing RLC SDU exists, when acertain timer is expired. Furthermore, the out-of-sequence deliveryfunction of the NR RLC entity may process the RLC PDUs in order ofreception and deliver the RLC PDUs to the NR PDCP entity regardless ofSNs (out-of-sequence delivery), and when a received RLC PDU is asegment, the NR RLC entity may reassemble the segment with othersegments stored in a buffer or subsequently received, into a whole RLCPDU and may transmit the RLC PDU to the NR PDCP entity. The NR RLC layermay not include the concatenation function, and the above function maybe performed by the NR MAC layer, or may be replaced with themultiplexing function of the NR MAC layer.

The out-of-sequence delivery of the NR RLC entity S35 or S60 refers to afunction of immediately delivering RLC SDUs received from a lower layer,to a higher layer out of an order, and may include a function ofreassembling and delivering RLC SDUs, when a single RLC SDU is segmentedinto a plurality of RLC SDUs and received, and a function of storing RLCSNs or PDCP SNs of received RLC PDUs and recording missing RLC PDUs byaligning the received RLC PDUs in order.

The NR MAC layer S40 or S55 may be connected to several NR RLC layerentities configured in a terminal, and the major functions of the NR MAClayer may include some of functions below.

Mapping function (Mapping between logical channels and transportchannels)

Multiplexing and demultiplexing function (Multiplexing/demultiplexing ofMAC SDUs)

Scheduling information reporting function (Scheduling informationreporting)

HARQ function (Error correction through HARQ)

Function of handling priority between logical channels (Priorityhandling between logical channels of one UE)

Function of handling priority between UEs (Priority handling between UEsby means of dynamic scheduling)

MBMS service identifying function (MBMS service identification)

Transport format selecting function (Transport format selection)

Padding function (Padding)

The NR PHY layer S45 or S50 may perform channel coding or modulation onhigher layer data and convert the same into an OFDM symbol and transmitthe OFDM symbol to a radio channel, or demodulate an OFDM symbolreceived via a radio channel and perform channel decoding on thedemodulated OFDM symbol and transfer the channel-decoded OFDM symbol toa higher layer.

The detailed structure of the radio protocol structure may be variouslychanged according to a carrier (or cell) operating method. For example,when the base station transmits data to the terminal based on a singlecarrier (or cell), the base station and the terminal use a protocolstructure having a single structure for each layer, such as SOO. On theother hand, when the base station transmits data to the terminal basedon CA (carrier aggregation) using multiple carriers in a single TRP, thebase station and the terminal have a single structure up to RLC likeS10, but a protocol for multiplexing the PHY layer through the MAC layerstructure is used. As another example, when the base station transmitsdata to the terminal based on dual connectivity (DL) by using multiplecarriers from multiple TRPs, the base station and the terminal have asingle structure up to RLC like S20, but a protocol structure formultiplexing a PHY layer through the MAC layer is used.

FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating examples of various operatingscenarios of SRS. Referring to FIG. 12 , it is possible to consider atleast the following three SRS operation scenarios in an NR system.

1) A base station 1205 configures a beam in one direction to a terminal1200 (in this specification, to set a beam/precoding in one directionincludes not applying beam/preceding or applying a wide beam(cell-coverage or sector coverage), and the terminal 1200 transmits anSRS according to the transmission period and offset of the SRS in thecase of periodic SRS or semi-persistent SRS, and transmits an SRSaccording to the SRS request of the base station in the case ofaperiodic SRS (a time determined after the SRS request). Here,additional information for beam/precoding is not required for the SRSs.

2) Base stations 1175 and 1220 may set beams for the terminal 1170 inone or more directions, and a terminal 1170 may transmit a plurality ofSRS beamformed in the one or more directions. For example, as shown inFIG. 12 , it is possible to set SRS resource (or port) #0 to bebeamformed to the base station 1175 and SRS resource (or port) #1 to bebeamformed to the base station 1220. In this case, the base stations1175 and 1220 need to inform not only an SRS request but also the SRSbeam/precoding information, unlike the scheme 1) described above.

3) A base station 1230 may set beams for a terminal 1225 in one or moredirections, and the terminal 1225 may transmit a plurality of SRSbeamformed in the one or more directions. For example, referring to FIG.12 , the base station 1230 may configure the terminal 1225 to transmitan SRS by applying different beam/precoding to SRS resource (or port)#0, SRS resource (or port) #1, SRS resource(or port) #2. According tothe above, even when the terminal 1225 has high mobility, stablecommunication may be performed through beam/precoder diversity. Forexample, the terminal 1225 may provide channel status information to thebase station 1230 via SRS #2 at time A, and may provide channel statusinformation to the base station 1230 via SRS#0 at time A+alpha. In thiscase, the base station 1230 needs to inform not only the SRS request butalso the SRS beam/precoding information, unlike the scheme 1) describedabove.

Although described above based on SRS transmission, similarly, it ispossible to extend to other UL channel/RS transmissions such as PRACH,PUSCH, and PUCCH, and detailed descriptions of all cases are omitted soas not to obscure the gist of the disclosure.

In the NR system, two measurement methods are supported to measurecross-link interference (CLI) between terminals. The first method isSRS-Reference Signal Received Power (SRS-RSRP that measures ReferenceSignal Received Power (RSRP) from SRS. The second method is a Cross LinkInterference Received Signal Strength Indicator (CLI-RSSI) for measuringthe reception power of interference in a specific resource. When theterminal measures SRS-RSRP, the terminal may receive SRS measurementconfiguration information similar to SRS transmission configurationinformation from the serving base station.

FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating examples of cross-link interferencemeasurement scenario according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

Referring to FIG. 13 , it is possible to consider at least two SRSinterference measurement scenarios below in an NR system.

1) The first scenario is a scenario for measuring SRS interferencebetween adjacent terminals in different cells. In detail, a terminal A1300 and a terminal B 1301 connected to two different base stations 1305and 1315, respectively, in a situation where the two different basestations 1305 and 1315 exist are considered. The terminal A 1300 isconnected to the base station A 1305, and the terminal B 1301 isconnected to the base station B 1315. Here, the base station A 1305 mayconfigure with a higher layer signal or indicate by a physical signalsuch that the terminal A 1300 transmits an SRS 1303, and the terminal A1300 may receive a configuration or indication from the base station A1305 and transmit the SRS 1303. The base station B 1315 may configurefor the terminal 1301, via a higher layer signal, to measure CLI throughreception of the SRS 1303, and the terminal B 1301 may receive from thebase station B 1315 a configuration regarding SRS measurement andmeasure the SRS 1303 transmitted by the terminal A 1300. The terminal B1301 may measure the SRS 1303 and report a measurement result of the SRS1303 to the base station B 1315. Information necessary for a measurementresult report, for example, information including at least atransmission resource and a transmission time, may be received by theterminal B 1301 from the base station B 1315 through a higher layersignal in advance.

2) The second scenario is a scenario for measuring SRS interferencebetween adjacent terminals in one cell. In detail, a terminal A 1310 anda terminal B 1311 connected to one a base station 1325 are considered.The terminal A 1310 is connected to the base station A 1325, and theterminal B 1311 is also connected to the base station A 1325. Here, thebase station A 1325 may configure with a higher layer signal or indicateby a physical signal such that the terminal A 1310 transmits an SRS1313, and the terminal A 1300 may receive a configuration or indicationfrom the base station A 1305 and transmit the SRS 1313. The base stationB 1325 may configure for the terminal 1311, via a higher layer signal,to measure CLI through reception of the SRS 1313, and the terminal B1311 may receive from the base station B 1325 a configuration regardingSRS measurement and measure the SRS 1313 transmitted by the terminal A1310. The terminal B 1311 may measure the SRS 1313 and report ameasurement result of the SRS 1313 to the base station A 1325.Information necessary for a measurement result report, for example,information including at least a transmission resource and atransmission time, may be received by the terminal B 1311 from the basestation A 1325 through a higher layer signal in advance.

In the disclosure, cross-link interference may be referred to ascross-link interference, CLI, uplink signal measurement of a terminal,or other various terms.

In the NR system, the terminal may be configured with information abouta frequency axis start position and a width of a downlink bandwidthpart, information about a frequency axis start position and a width ofan uplink bandwidth part, information about a frequency axis startposition and a width of an uplink reference signal such as SRS (soundingreference signal), information about a frequency axis start position anda width of an uplink channel such as PUCCH or PUSCH, independentlythrough a higher layer, or may be indicated about the above informationby L1 signaling.

When the terminal measures cross-link interference, when some pieces ofthe “information about the frequency axis start position and width ofthe downlink bandwidth part”, “information about the frequency axisstart position and the width of the uplink bandwidth part”, “informationabout the frequency axis start position and the width for an uplinkreference signal such as SRS (sounding reference signal)” and“information about the frequency axis start position and the width of anuplink channel such as PUCCH or PUSCH” do not match, the accuracy ofcross-link interference measurement may be affected. In particular, theNR system supports dynamic change (BWP switching) for a downlinkbandwidth part and an uplink bandwidth part, and thus, the accuracy ofcross-link interference measurement may not be uniform.

In determining whether cooperative communication is applied, theterminal may use various methods in which PDCCH(s) for allocating PDSCHto which cooperative communication is applied has a specific format, orPDCCH(s) for allocating PDSCH to which cooperative communication isapplied include a particular indicator indicating whether cooperativecommunication is applied, or whether PDCCH(s) for allocating a PDSCH towhich cooperative communication is applied is scrambled by a particularRNTI, or application of cooperative communication is assumed in acertain period indicated by a higher layer. Hereinafter, for convenienceof description, a case in which a terminal receives a PDSCH to whichcooperative communication is applied based on conditions similar to theabove will be referred to as an NC-JT case.

Hereinafter, in the disclosure, determining a priority between A and Bmeans selecting one having a higher priority according to a predefinedpriority rule and performing a corresponding operation or omitting ordropping an operation on one having a lower priority.

FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating an example of switching of a referencesignal transmission band due to a switch in an uplink bandwidth part,according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

Referring to FIG. 14 , a base station may configure for a terminal anuplink bandwidth part #1 14-05 and an uplink bandwidth part #2 14-10which have different bandwidth parts from each other. In this case, thebase station may additionally configure an uplink reference signal orchannel such as SRS (14-00) to the terminal separately from thebandwidth part configuration. When the base station indicates to switchthe bandwidth part from the uplink bandwidth part #1 having a widerbandwidth to the uplink bandwidth part #2 having a narrower bandwidth(14-15), the terminal performs the switch in the bandwidth part for agiven time according to the base station indication (14-20). Meanwhile,as the terminal is stipulated not to transmit an uplink reference signalor channel in a frequency band other than the currently used uplinkbandwidth part (active UL BWP), frequency resources not included inuplink bandwidth part #2 after performing the bandwidth change (14-25),the uplink reference signal or channel is not transmitted regardless ofthe configuration.

In this case, when a certain terminal performs cross-link interferencemeasurement depending only on the uplink reference signal or channelconfiguration, it may imply that the change in the actual uplinktransmission resource due to the active UL BWP switch of the terminalwhich transmits the uplink reference signal or channel may not berecognized. This may cause a decrease in the cross-link interferencemeasurement accuracy in the corresponding situation.

FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating an example of a decrease in accuracyof cross-link interference measurement due to mismatch in bandwidthsbetween uplink and downlink, according to an embodiment of thedisclosure.

Referring to FIG. 15 , a base station may configure, for a terminal,which is to measure cross-link interference, one or more downlinkbandwidth parts (15-00) and uplink reference signal or channelinformation including resource information (RE location information,etc.) for measuring cross-link interference (15-05). In addition,according to one of the scenarios described above, the same or anotherbase station may configure, for a terminal, which is to transmit anuplink signal or channel to be used for cross-link interferencemeasurement, one or more uplink bandwidth parts (15-10) and an uplinksignal or channel to be used in measurement of cross-link interference(15-15). Here, when a width of the uplink bandwidth part of the terminaltransmitting an uplink signal or channel for cross-link interferencemeasurement (15-10) is narrower than a width of a downlink bandwidthpart of the terminal performing cross-link interference measurement(15-00), the cross-link interference measurement resource 15-05 receivedby the terminal performing cross-link interference measurement isdivided into REs 15-20 through which an actual uplink signal or channelis transmitted and REs 15-25 which are configured but through whichactual uplink signals or channels are not transmitted. The terminalperforming the cross-link interference measurement may use all REsincluded in the cross-link interference measurement resourceconfiguration (15-05) for a cross-link interference report withoutrestrictions, and thus, the base station and the terminal which receivethe cross-link interference report may not obtain selective informationabout the part 15-20 in which actual uplink transmission is included.

The cross-link interference measurement resource includes the time andfrequency position of the PRB, the time and frequency position of theRE, etc. indicated by SRS configuration included or associated withSRS-RSRP or CLI-RSSI.

In the description of the disclosure, the cross-link interference reportincludes transmission of uplink control information (UCI) according to aconfiguration or indication such as SRS-RSRP or CLI-RSSI.

In the description of the disclosure, L1 filtering for cross-linkinterference measurement collectively refers to single measurement-based(one shot estimation, single estimation occasion) cross-linkinterference measurement is indicated by L1 signaling such as DCI or isactivated by L2 signaling such as MAC CE.

In the description of the disclosure, L3 filtering for cross-linkinterference measurement collectively refers to multi-measurement-basedcross-link Interference measurement (multi-shot estimation, multipleestimation occasions) that is activated by L2 signaling such as MAC CEor is configured and performed by L3 signaling such as RRC. Here, whenperforming multiple measurements, the terminal may calculate across-link interference report value by applying filter coefficientsprovided by L3 signaling such as RRC to each measurement value.

First Embodiment: L1 Filtering for CLI Measurement

In a first embodiment, a cross-link interference measurement methodbased on L1 filtering is provided.

According to the first embodiment, the base station may indicate theterminal to perform single measurement-based (one shot estimation,single estimation occasion) cross-link interference measurement throughL1 signaling such as DCI or activate it through L2 signaling such as MACCE. Here, the terminal may be guaranteed to measure L1 cross-linkinterference of a smaller number than a certain number (e,g., a fixedvalue such as 1, 2, or 4, or a value set separately such as the numberof L3 cross-link interference measurements via a higher layer) accordingto UE capability signaling or a predetermined agreement.

Here, the terminal may be additionally indicated from the base stationthrough DCI, MAC CE, RRC, etc. about the bandwidth part for performingcross-link interference measurement independently of the applieddownlink bandwidth part (active DL BWP).

Second Embodiment: BWP Assumption Method for CLI Measurement

In a second embodiment, bandwidth part assumption methods for cross-linkinterference measurement and reporting are provided.

In order to solve a bandwidth mismatch problem between transmitting andreceiving ends, which may occur during cross-link interferencemeasurement, it is possible to limit the measurement band by one of thefollowing methods when the terminal performs cross-link interferencemeasurement and reporting.

1) The terminal may be limited to measure cross-link interference withina currently applied downlink bandwidth part (active DL BWP).

2) The terminal may be limited to measure cross-link interference withina bandwidth part having a smallest (or widest) band among the configureduplink bandwidth parts. In this case, a portion of the cross-linkinterference measurement band outside the downlink bandwidth part(active DL BWP) currently applied by the terminal is excluded frommeasurement and reporting.

3) The terminal may be limited to measure cross-link interference withinan uplink bandwidth part configured as the initial UL BWP. Here, aportion of the cross-link interference measurement band outside thedownlink bandwidth part (active DL BWP) currently applied by theterminal is excluded from measurement and reporting.

4) The terminal may be limited to measure cross-link interference withinan uplink bandwidth part configured as default UL BWP. Here, a portionof the cross-link interference measurement band outside the downlinkbandwidth part (active DL BWP) currently applied by the terminal isexcluded from measurement and reporting.

5) The terminal may be independently configured with a bandwidth part(or band information) for the purpose of at least one cross-linkinterference measurement. Here, a portion of the cross-link interferencemeasurement band outside the downlink bandwidth part (active DL BWP)currently applied by the terminal is excluded from measurement andreporting. When the base station has configured for a terminal with abandwidth part (or band information) for at least one cross-linkinterference measurement, the base station may notify the terminal ofwhether to follow a preset agreement or order or which bandwidth part(band information) is to be used, through L1 signaling.

Third Embodiment: Multiple SRS Configuration for CU Measurement per BWP

In a third embodiment, a method of improving an uplink signal (SRS,etc.) or channel configuration for cross-link interference measurementand reporting is provided.

In order to solve a bandwidth mismatch problem between transmitting andreceiving ends, which may occur during cross-fink interferencemeasurement, the base station may configure for the terminal a pluralityof signals or channel information for cross-link interferencemeasurement. The base station may configure one or more SRSconfigurations to be associated with SRS-RSRP or CLI-RSSI report inorder to increase the accuracy of the SRS-RSRP or CLI-RSSI report. Next,the base station 1) may enable the terminal, which measures cross-linkinterference, to select one of the plurality of SRSs for cross-linkinterference measurement, configured above implicitly by active DL BWPor active UL. BWP index, etc., or 2) may enable the terminal to selectone the plurality of SRSs for cross-link interference measurement,configured above explicitly by L1 signaling such as DCI or by L2signaling such as MAC CE.

Fourth Embodiment: Subband Reporting for CLI-RSRP

In a fourth embodiment, a method of improving SRS-RSRP or CLI-RSSIreport configuration for cross-link interference measurement andreporting is provided,

In order to solve a bandwidth mismatch problem between transmitting andreceiving ends, which may occur during cross-link interferencemeasurement, the base station may be configured to report subbandSRS-RSRP or CLI-RSSI to the terminal. For example, to increase theaccuracy of SRS-RSRP or CLI-RSSI reporting, the base station may dividean SRS transmission band for cross-link interference measurement (oranother transmission band of uplink signal/channel for cross-linkinterference measurement) into one or more subbands and configure toperform SRS-RSRP or CLI-RSSI reporting of different values for each ofthe subbands. After receiving a plurality of SRS-RSRP or CLI-RSSIvalues, the base station may determine a period of cross-linkmeasurement band mismatch period, and not use a report value in thecorresponding subband.

Fifth Embodiment: L1/L2 Signaling for CLI Measurement/Update Skipping

In a fifth embodiment, another example of a method of improving SRS-RSRPor CLI-RSSI report configuration for cross-link interference measurementand reporting is provided.

In order to solve a bandwidth mismatch problem between the transmittingand receiving ends, which may occur during cross-link interferencemeasurement, the base station may configure/indicate for a terminal orto the terminal to stop (skip) uplink signal/channel measurement forSRS-RSRP or CLI-RSSI in a specific time or frequency period or not touse a measurement value in the corresponding period, for SRS-RSRP orCLI-RSSI update. For example, the base station may notify the terminalof information (pattern) about time/frequency resources through higherlayer signaling, or indicate the terminal to stop measuring cross-linkinterference through L1 signaling, and after receiving the correspondingindication, the terminal may apply a certain time/frequency offset andstop (skip) uplink signal/channel measurement for SRS-RSRP or CLI-RSSIor may not use a measurement value in the corresponding period, forSRS-RSRP or CLI-RSSI update.

The above-described embodiments may not be independent of each other,and in some cases, different embodiments may be applied. For example,when measuring L3 filtering-based cross-link interference, Embodiment 1may be applied, and when measuring L1 filtering-based cross-linkinterference, Embodiment 5 may be applied.

FIG. 16 is a diagram illustrating a cross-link interference measurementand reporting procedure according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

Referring to FIG. 16 , a base station may configure for a terminal areference signal, an uplink signal or a channel for cross-linkinterference measurement (16-00). The base station may additionallyconfigure for the terminal additional information such as bandwidth partinformation (or band information), L1 filtering-based cross-linkinterference measurement information or the like, for cross-linkinterference measurement (16-05). Next, the terminal determines whetheran L1 filter or an L3 filter is used in cross-link interferencemeasurement (16-10). When an L3 filter is used, the terminal measurescross-link interference based on reference signal configurationinformation for cross-link interference measurement (16-00) and performsa report (16-15). When an L1 filter is used, besides the referencesignal configuration information for cross-link interference measurement(16-00), the terminal may measure cross-link interference and report(16-20) by additionally considering additional information such asbandwidth part information (or band information), L1 filtering-basedcross-link interference measurement information for cross-linkinterference measurement (16-05).

FIG. 17 illustrates a structure of a terminal in a wirelesscommunication system according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

Referring to FIG. 17 , the terminal may include a terminal receiver17-00, a terminal transmitter 17-10, and a terminal processor(controller) 17-05.

The terminal receiver 17-00 and the terminal transmitter 17-10 may betogether referred to as a transceiver. According to the communicationmethod of the terminal described above, the terminal receiver 17-00, theterminal transmitter 17-10, and the terminal processor 17-05 of theterminal may operate. However, elements of the terminal are not limitedthereto. For example, the terminal may include more or fewer elements(for example, a memory) than the described ones. Moreover, the terminalreceiver 17-00, the terminal transmitter 17-10, and the terminalprocessor 17-05 may be implemented as one chip.

The terminal receiver 17-00 and the terminal transmitter 17-10 (or, atransceiver) may transmit or receive a signal to or from a base station.The signal may include control information and data. In this regard, thetransceiver may include an RF transmitter for up-converting andamplifying a frequency of a transmitted signal, and an RF receiver foramplifying low-noise and down-converting a frequency of a receivedsignal. However, this is only an example of the transceiver and elementsof the transceiver are not limited to the RF transmitter and the RFreceiver.

Furthermore, the transceiver may receive a signal through a wirelesschannel and output the signal to the terminal processor 17-05, and maytransmit a signal output from the terminal processor 17-05 through thewireless channel.

The memory (not shown) may store a program and data required for anoperation of the terminal. Furthermore, the memory may store controlinformation or data included in a signal obtained by the terminal. Thememory may include a storage medium such as ROM, RAM, hard disk, CD-ROM,and DVD, or any combination thereof.

The terminal processor 17-05 may control a series of processes so thatthe terminal operates according to the above embodiments of thedisclosure. The terminal processor 17-05 may be implemented as acontroller or one or more processors.

FIG. 18 illustrates a structure of a base station in a wirelesscommunication system according to an embodiment of the disclosure,

FIG. 18 is a block diagram of a structure of a base station in awireless communication system according to an embodiment of thedisclosure.

Referring to FIG. 18 , the base station may include a base stationreceiver 18-00, a base station transmitter 18-10, and a base stationprocessor (controller) 18-05.

The base station receiver 18-00 and the base station transmitter 18-10may be together referred to as a transceiver. According to thecommunication method of the base station described above, the basestation receiver 18-00, the base station transmitter 18-10, and the basestation processor 18-05 of the base station may operate. However,elements of the base station are not limited thereto. For example, thebase station may include more or fewer elements (for example, a memory)than the described ones. Moreover, the base station receiver 18-00, thebase station transmitter 18-10, and the base station processor 18-05 maybe implemented as one chip.

The base station receiver 18-00 and the base station transmitter 18-10(or a transceiver) may transmit or receive a signal to or from aterminal. The signal may include control information and data. In thisregard, the transceiver may include an RF transmitter for up-convertingand amplifying a frequency of a transmitted signal, and an RF receiverfor amplifying low-noise and down-converting a frequency of a receivedsignal. However, this is only an example of the transceiver and elementsof the transceiver are not limited to the RF transmitter and the RFreceiver.

Furthermore, the transceiver may receive a signal through a wirelesschannel and output the signal to the base station processor 18-05, andmay transmit a signal output from the base station processor 18-05through the wireless channel.

The memory (not shown) may store a program and data required for anoperation of the base station. Furthermore, the memory may store controlinformation or data included in a signal obtained by the base station.The memory may include a storage medium such as ROM, RAM, hard disk,CD-ROM, and DVD, or any combination thereof.

The base station processor 18-05 may control a series of processes sothat the base station operates according to the above embodiments of thedisclosure. Also, the base station processor 18-05 may be implemented asa controller or one or more processors.

The methods according to the embodiments of the disclosure as describedherein or in the following claims may be implemented as hardware,software, or a combination of hardware and software.

When implemented in software, a computer-readable storage medium storingone or more programs (e.g., software modules) may be provided. The oneor more programs stored in the computer-readable storage medium areconfigured for execution by one or more processors in an electronicdevice. The one or more programs include instructions directing theelectronic device to execute the methods according to the embodiments ofthe disclosure as described in the claims and the specification.

The programs (e.g., software modules or software) may be stored inrandom access memory (RAM), non-volatile memory including flash memory,read-only memory (ROM), electrically erasable programmable read-onlymemory (EEPROM), a magnetic disc storage device, a compact disc-ROM(CD-ROM), a digital versatile disc (DVD), another optical storagedevice, or a magnetic cassette. Alternatively, the programs may bestored in memory including a combination of some or all of theabove-mentioned storage media, A plurality of such memories may beincluded.

In addition, the programs may be stored in an attachable storage deviceaccessible through any or a combination of communication networks suchas the Internet, an intranet, a local area network (LAN), a wide LAN(WLAN), and a storage area network (SAN). Such a storage device mayaccess the electronic device via an external port. Furthermore, anadditional storage device on a communication network may access a devicethat performs the embodiments of the disclosure.

In the embodiments of the disclosure described above, an element orelements included in the disclosure are expressed in a singular orplural form depending on the described embodiments of the disclosure.However, the singular or plural form is selected properly for asituation assumed for convenience of description and does not limit thedisclosure, and elements expressed in a plural form may include a singleelement and an element expressed in a singular form may include aplurality of elements.

Meanwhile, the embodiments disclosed in the specification and drawingsare merely presented to easily describe the technical content of thedisclosure and help understanding of the disclosure, and are notintended to limit the scope of the disclosure. That is, it will beobvious to one of ordinary skill in the art to which the disclosurebelongs that different modifications may be achieved based on thetechnical spirit of the disclosure. Also, when necessary, the aboverespective embodiments may be employed in combination. For example, abase station and a terminal may be operated in a manner that portions ofan embodiment of the disclosure are combined with portions of anotherembodiment of the disclosure. For example, a base station and a terminalmay be operated in a manner that portions of a first embodiment of thedisclosure are combined with portions of a second embodiment of thedisclosure. Also, although the embodiments are described based on FDDLTE systems, modifications based on the technical scope of theembodiments may be applied to other communication systems such as TDDLTE system, 5G or NR systems, or the like.

In the drawings for explaining the method of the disclosure, the orderof description does not necessarily correspond to the order ofexecution, and the precedence relationship between the operations of themethod may be changed or the operations may be executed in parallel.

Alternatively, some elements may be omitted and only some elements maybe included in the drawings for explaining the method of the disclosurewithout impairing the gist of the disclosure.

Also, parts or all of the descriptions included in each of theembodiments of the method of the disclosure may be performed incombination without departing from the gist of the disclosure.

1. An operating method of a first terminal in a wireless communicationsystem, the operating method comprising: receiving at least oneconfiguration information about at least one reference signaltransmitted by a second terminal; selecting at least one piece of the atleast one configuration information when an uplink bandwidth part of thesecond terminal and a downlink bandwidth part of the first terminal aredifferent from each other; measuring cross-link interference (CLI)through the reference signal based on the selected configurationinformation; and reporting a result of the measuring, to the basestation.
 2. The operating method of claim 1, further comprisingdetermining a bandwidth for measuring the cross-link interference amongthe downlink bandwidth, wherein the cross-link interference isdetermined based on a reference signal measured at the determinedbandwidth.
 3. The operating method of claim 2, wherein the determinedbandwidth corresponds to, from among the uplink bandwidth, at least oneof a narrowest bandwidth, a part configured as an initial uplinkbandwidth, a part configured as a default uplink bandwidth part, or apart configured by the base station.
 4. The method of claim 1, whereinthe reporting of the result of the measuring comprises dividing thedownlink bandwidth into subbands and reporting the result of themeasuring, based on the subbands, wherein the cross-link interference isdetermined based on a reference signal measured in a subband in whichthe uplink bandwidth and the downlink bandwidth match each other, fromamong the reference signal.
 5. The method of claim 1, further comprisingreceiving, from the base station, an indication about whether to stopmeasurement of the cross-link interference through higher layersignaling, wherein the cross-link interference is determined accordingto a reference signal measured based on the indication.
 6. The method ofclaim 1, wherein the cross-link interference is measured according to aconfiguration according to layer 1 signaling or layer 3 signaling.
 7. Afirst terminal in a wireless communication system, the first terminalcomprising: a transceiver; and at least one processor connected to thetransceiver, wherein the at least one processor is configured to receiveat least one configuration information about at least one referencesignal transmitted from a second terminal, and select at least one pieceof the at least one configuration information when an uplink bandwidthpart of the second terminal and a downlink bandwidth part of the firstterminal are different from each other, measure cross-link interference(CLI) through the reference signal based on the selected configurationinformation, and report a result of the measuring, to the base station.8. The first terminal of claim 7, wherein the at least one processor isfurther configured to determine a bandwidth for measuring the cross-linkinterference from among the downlink bandwidth, and the cross-linkinterference is determined based on a reference signal measured at thedetermined bandwidth.
 9. The first terminal of claim 8, wherein thedetermined bandwidth corresponds to, from among the uplink bandwidth, atleast one of a narrowest bandwidth, a part configured as an initialuplink bandwidth, a part configured as a default uplink bandwidth part,or a part configured by the base station.
 10. The first terminal ofclaim 7, wherein the at least one processor is further configured todivide the downlink bandwidth into subbands and report the result of themeasuring, based on the subbands, and the cross-link interference isdetermined based on a reference signal measured in a subband in whichthe uplink bandwidth and the downlink bandwidth match each other, fromamong the reference signal.
 11. The first terminal of claim 7, whereinthe at least one processor receives, from the base station, anindication about whether to stop measurement of the cross-linkinterference, through higher layer signaling, and the cross-linkinterference is determined according to a reference signal measuredbased on the indication.
 12. The first terminal of claim 7, wherein thecross-link interference is measured according to a configurationaccording to layer 1 signaling or layer 3 signaling.
 13. An operatingmethod of a base station in a wireless communication system, theoperating method comprising: transmitting, to a first terminal, at leastone configuration information about at least one reference signaltransmitted by a second terminal, wherein cross-link interference (CU)measured through the reference signal is measured based on the at leastone configuration information selected by the first terminal when anuplink bandwidth part of the second terminal and a downlink bandwidthpart of the first terminal are different from each other; and receivinga result of measuring, from the first terminal.
 14. A base station in awireless communication system, the base station comprising: atransceiver; and at least one processor connected to the transceiver,wherein the at least one processor is further configured to: transmit,to a first terminal, at least one configuration information about atleast one reference signal transmitted by a second terminal, whereincross-link interference (CU) measured through the reference signal ismeasured based on the at least one configuration information selected bythe first terminal when an uplink bandwidth part of the second terminaland a downlink bandwidth part of the first terminal are different fromeach other; and receive a result of the measuring, from the firstterminal.
 15. The terminal of claim 14, wherein the cross-linkinterference is measured according to a configuration according to layer1 signaling or layer 3 signaling.